This is Your Brain on Books
Elyse Graham at Public Books
Topic
Books
A collection of 330 issues
Pixel v. Print and Five Hard Novels
I ran across perhaps the most-enjoyable Medium.com pieces of the past few months: Five Insanely Difficult Novels (and Why They're Worth the Effort).
It, for me, is perhaps the quintessential online essay.
I agree with Joseph Epstein that there is something fundamentally different between reading print and
Gatsby: Grasping for Transcendence
Frank DeVito at Front Porch Republic
An Encyclopedia of Curiosities and Horrors
Filip Bakardzhiev at VoegelinView
Picture Books for Adults
This is a delightful piece from Public Books. I especially liked this observation about how medieval monks would read:
This form of reading, de Hamel says, is one reason why so many medieval manuscripts have richly decorated pages. The decorations “helped impress a page visually in the reader’s memory,
What Do Fungi Have to Do with Athens?
Eve Tushnet at The University Bookman
James Schall's Another Sort of Learning
Summer 1988. I’d just graduated from the University of Michigan and was preparing to enter the University of Notre Dame School of Law. I was working second shift at a local factory as a material handler (gopher). I was working six nights a week, Monday through Saturday,4:30
I Almost Became an Anarchist
A mini-review of The Essential Rothbard by David Gordon.
Murray Rothbard almost made me an anarchist.
I had read some of Rothbard's stuff and had delved into various areas of anarchist thought (mostly through this somewhat difficult, very thick, often fascinating volume). I've abandoned such notions,
Back to Nebraska With Bruce
Bill Kauffman at The American Conservative
The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein
Steve Donoghue at Open Letters Review