Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Book Publishing, Bookselling, George Bowering, and the new censorship
I read George Bowering’s latest book, Writing and Reading (New Star, Vancouver, 2019), in a single sitting, which was unique in my experience of reading him. Bowering can be demanding and occasionally hermetic, and therefore requires intense concentration. But Writing and Reading was like having a conversation with George at a…
Read MoreFor Interpretation: Susan Sontag
On the tenth annivarsary of her death, Daniel Schreiber’s biography revisits the life of Susan Sontag.
Read MoreCliffhanger
Stan Persky checks out a new book that asks, “Should we read in the digital age?”
Read MoreThe Mother-in-Law Joke
Stephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.
Read MoreNation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text
Good grief! What does it mean?
Read MoreLetter from Berlin: Secret Germany
It’s icy in Berlin. A good time to get a grip on Germany’s slippery past.
Read MoreDecline and Distraction
The illusions of empire and the illusions of critics of illusions.
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