comparative reading
Michael Grothaus: After finishing my read of the novel on both mediums — the iPad and the paperback — I am more...
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books as home
Here’s a wonderful interview — alas, too brief — with Alberto Manguel. Some choice bits: I don’t think the...
thesis for disputation
The best interpreters of any given text are those whose ideas — whether you agree with them or not — send you back...
Twitter as bookclub
Is Neil Gaiman’s American Gods a good choice for the One Book, One Twitter event/bookclub/opinionfest? Gaiman himself...
parents and children
Michael Norris, “an American publishing expert,” says, “Parents have too much of a role in deciding which books...
is this a dagger I see before me?
Jennifer McDonald writes about Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point: “This is a book,” Monson writes on his first page....
personal liking
The critical judgment “This book is good or bad” implies good or bad at all times, but in relation to the readers...
the disembodied reviewer?
Let me return to my previous comments on Jason Kottke’s distinction between old and new forms of reviewing, and to...
anxieties of influence
Ezra Klein’s response to the current books-that-most-influenced-me meme is interesting: He says that in such...