Monster from the South Seas
Not everyone is impressed by the gargantuan Booker Prize winner.
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Kaiserlich und Königlich
The old Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed into its component parts after the First World War, a victim of rising nationalism and Woodrow Wilson’s backing for national self-determination. Given the wave of fascism and authoritarianism that followed, leading to another war, many people thought something very valuable had been lost.
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German Book Prize
One of Germany’s most prestigious literary prizes, awarded at the start of the Frankfurt Book Festival, has gone to the Hungarian-born Terézia Mora .
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Stop. Think. Stop.
A new book examines some of the interesting and obscure corners of punctuation and typography and the strange characters that once lurked about.
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Books Do Furnish A Room
Is the future of the book made from paper to be appreciated largely as a beautiful object, not necessarily destined to die out but to become a remote, old-fashioned, cultured cousin while more and more production is transferred to electronic format?
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Letter from New England
A new play performed by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, features a superb portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.
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Miracles in the Cornfield
Steve Logan writes of his slight acquaintance with Seamus Heaney and his influence on him as a university teacher.
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Oh Brave New World!
Rebecca Solnit remembers a time when the paper was delivered in the morning, you went to the pictures to see a film and Mom always had something good cooking in the kitchen.
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Take My Advice
Democracy and debate are all very well – in their place. But sometimes we should surely just listen to the advice of people who know more about these things than we do.
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Not so brave
Publishers of course have always deprecated book censorship, but have they always fought it?