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- The Complete Syllabus: Animals A list of books used in our Summer issue, “Animals”.
- The Complete Syllabus: Magic Shows A list of all of the books used in our Summer issue, “Magic Shows.”
- Lewis Lapham at 192 Books May 3, 2012
- Back Matter “The world is a great volume, and man the Index of that Book.”
- Living in the Margins In medieval marginalia, you might find complaining monks, a nun breastfeeding a monkey, and sexual wordplay. Oh, and doodles, lots of doodles.
- Spring Cleaning 213 BC / Qin
- New Media 1846 / Paris
- Talking Book c. 1725 / Atlantic Ocean
- The Imperial Faculty 1821 / Pisa
- No Sex in the Prison Library c. 1965 / San Quentin, CA
- Redefined 1906 / Washington, DC
- The High-Raised Literary Tone 1820 / London
- Predicting Their Own Demise We can say what we want about the future of reading, but perhaps we ought to let the novel speak for itself.
- The Zombie Apocalypse of Daniel Defoe “A Journal of the Plague Year” might not technically chronicle an undead armageddon, but all the elements of the now popular genre are alive and well.
- The Worst Business in the World Everyday is doomsday if you ask certain people about the future of publishing. But the history of bookselling proves it is more adaptive than its critics give it credit for.
- The Complete Syllabus: “The Future” This quarter’s syllabus is assembled and ready for your perusal. It should at least get you to the next issue.
- The Late Word Curtis White discusses the connection between bookselling and book culture and what the current shift in the former means for the future of ‘literature.’
- Required Reading 2011: Canonical literature may feel like bitter medicine, especially when read at an early age. But even after our tastes...
- Good Librarians Borrow, Great Ones Steal 2011: In the ongoing battle over the availability of information on the web, law enforcement has dealt the latest blow,...
- The Monster Ate Vegetables Frankenstein’s monster may have been a man-killer, but Mary Shelly also made her monster a vegetarian.
