Category Archives: Literature

Not The Perseus You’re Looking For

Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Keith

Over at Salon, Martha Nichols asks, why can’t Hollywood make good mythic movies? Watching the trailer for “Clash of the Titans,” I know as surely as the Oracle of Delphi that this movie will be foul. A remake of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Movies, Mythology, What Has Happened To The theatre? | 2 Comments

The Endless Library

Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 by Keith

James Grimmelmann has written a paper outlining a coherent information policy for Borges’ Library of Babel.(PDF version here) He compares it’s vastness and multitudes, which contain not just all books in the universe but all possible books (including impossible and … Continue reading →

Posted in Librarians, Literature | 1 Comment

Reading Harry Potter in America

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 by Keith

Ron Charles, Literary Critic for the Washington Post, has a problem with Harry Potter: But all around me, I see adults reading J.K. Rowling’s books to themselves: perfectly intelligent, mature people, poring over “Harry Potter” with nary a child in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Fiction, Harry Potter, Literature | 5 Comments

Loosing Shakespeare

Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by Keith

I’ve been reading The Book of Lost Books on my lunch breaks and it’s fascinating stuff. Take for example, the lost Shakespeare play, Cardenio. Cardenio was known to have been performed at least on one occasion in 1613, by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, History, Literature | 1 Comment

You Are What You Read

Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 by Keith

John Dickerson at Slate wants to know why GW was reading the Stranger on his Vacation: On his summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, George Bush read Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger. I’m not sure what to make of this. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, News, Politics | 2 Comments