This is normally the kind of story I would save for my “this week on […]
Authors versus authors
It’s Booker season again. Which means it it’s also time for the Not the Booker […]
Words worth
In Lady Windemere’s Fan, one of Oscar Wilde’s characters defines a cynic as “A man who […]
The nope list
There are two camps in the bookish world right now. On the one side, readers […]
The twist in the tale
There is a long standing question in the bookish world about plot twists and unreliable […]
Here come the Puritans
Last week, several sources reported on Tara Schultz’s quest to have Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last […]
Trigger warnings: Part II
At the end of the spring semester, m’colleague and I asked what the students thought […]
Perpetuating the bookish culture
Last week, while getting to know one of the new IT aides in the Library, […]
The joys of closely reading someone else closely reading
Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of […]
“Which ones should we not publish?”
Icelandic publishing has a weird problem. Nearly every book in Iceland is published around Christmas. […]