The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
Today’s Library Haul
Took out a mountain of books from the library this afternoon, in anticipation of National Translation Month.
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
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…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…
A Bird, a Plane
From David Shields’s How Literature Saved My Life: When I was a little kid, I was a very good baseball…
The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final
For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been…
The Sister, the Lover, & Skepticism: Kafka Sermon #2
A couple of days ago, here on Big Other, I posted my first round of thoughts on one of Kafka’s briefest…
The “Fabulous” vs. the “Struggle:” Kafka Sermon #1
ON PARABLES Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily…