Discipline After a friend’s suicide, Tōson Shimazaki quit his job—teaching—in order to move to the country in order to live…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…
“The reason why poetry once lost favor with the more judicious”
“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…
Tolerance and Accessibility II
Let’s try a slightly different tack this time. Here are the first two paragraphs of a review written by Clifton…
Tolerance and Accessibility
OK, well, obviously, anything that spawned Godwin’s Law isn’t going to be the best place to start an intellectual inquiry…
“Serious” readers, and maybe why they’re so rare
Did you know there’s a Wikipedia entry for “Death of the novel“? Well, now you do, and it seems that…
Politics and the Novel
Why do I listen to NPR? Lately, it seems as though it’s been overrun by heathens, although maybe I’m just…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…
“One may say that the human ability to understand may be in a certain sense unlimited. But the existing scientific…