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How Did You Read This Summer?If you devoured books for simply utilitarian reasons, you're not alone. So give it a rest. By Gracy Olmstead The American ConservativesSeptember 3, 2018 By Shutterstock/ Mladen Mitrinovic #google_ads_iframe_\/339474670\/ADN_Native\/TAC_Native_1__container__ {padding: 10px 0; margin-bottom: 20px; border-top: solid 1px #000; border-bottom: solid 1px ..

Books The old man and his muse: Hemingway’s toe-curling infatuation with Adriana IvancichAutumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse reviewed Nicholas Shakespeare Spectator USA August 30, 2018 Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse Andrea di RobilantAtlantic Books, pp.348, $16.42 One rainy evening in December 1948, a blue Buick emerged from the darkness..

Books Just Read the Book AlreadyDigital culture doesn’t have to make you a shallow reader. But you have to do something about it.By Laura Miller SLATE Aug 16, 201810:32 AM <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/e7c47ef0-943a-46c2-ac7a-f1a7cdcc70d2.jpeg?width=780&height=520&rect=4584x3056&offset=0x0" alt="A wo..

The Hedonism of Reading Good BooksIt's a pleasure that infuses life with richness and it's available for the price of a library card. By E. J. Hutchinson The American ConservativeAug. 9, 2018 Credit: A. and I. Kruk/Shutterstock .post-content > ul:nth-child(6) {float: right; border: solid 1px #1b3346; width: 200px; padding: 15px; font: normal 80% sans-serif; color: #1b3346; m..

What We’re Reading This SummerBy The New Yorker June 20, 2018 Illustration by Katharina Bourjau “Maybe Esther,” by Katja Petrowskaja This book took a long time to get to me. Katja Petrowskaja and I were close friends in Moscow in the nineteen-nineties. Then she moved to Berlin, and we have seen each other sporadically since. A couple of years ago, she published “Maybe ..

Books Review Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works by Alexander C. Kafka The Washington Post, July 31, 2018 (Oxford University Press) “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” wrote Oscar Wilde in “The Critic as Artist.” “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Wilde wore many masks during his too short life. He was an acad..

■ 《강대국 일본의 부활》 反日이라는 권력 한국에선 反日은 일종의 권력이다. 여기에는 여야도 없고 좌우도 없다. 親日이라는 딱지는 그 어떤 것보다 강한 주홍글씨가 되는 게 한국이다. 2005년인가 가수 조영남이 <맞아 죽을 각오로 쓴 친일선언>이라는 책을 출간했다가 거의 제목 ..

Literary Criticism Publicity image of Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon for Wuthering Heights, 1939 © Everett Collection Inc./Alamy No coward soul was hersJacqueline Banerjee on the lives and afterlives of Emily Brontë 0 --> 0"> JACQUELINE BANERJEETLS, July 25, 2018 0 --> -1 --> Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in the village of Thornton, West Yorkshire, far from ..

The Book Is a Time Machine When we are not actually holding them, books are things over which we like to wring our hands. They stand, in their very solidity, for what might be precarious ... By David HenkinPublic Books7.19.2018 When we are not actually holding them, books are things over which we like to wring our hands. They stand, in their very solidity, for what might be pr..

Nick Drnaso – the first graphic novelist ever to be nominated for the Man Booker prize. Photograph: Olivia Obineme for the Observer Man Booker prize 2018 longlist includes graphic novel for the first time Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, which explores the disappearance of a young woman, ‘does just what good fiction should do’ – and will compete with Michael Ondaatje’s Warli..