Anjali Joseph (Literary Activism, 11/2021), “Madame Bovary and the Impossibility of Re-reading”: “In a way it’s not a novel about human characters at all: it’s a novel of objects and insects and sunlight and birds, of stains, or habit and repetition. A…
Reading agree six-point deduction with EFL for breaching financial rules
Club fall to 19th in Championship, four points above drop zoneReported £41m wage bill in 2018-19 equated to 194% of turnoverReading are to be deducted six points for breaking the English Football League’s financial regulations. The Championship club ag…
木越 治・丸井貴史『読まなければなにもはじまらない いまから古典を〈読む〉ために』（文学通信）
文学通信｜多様な情報をつなげ、多くの「問い」を世に生み出す出版社 日本語・日本文学の研究書を中心に、人文学書全般を刊行する出版社、文学通信のブログ。 文学だけにこだわらず周辺領域も含め、意欲的に刊行していきます。 出版活動と同様に、webでも積極的に活動することで、多様な情報をつなげ、多くの「問い」を…
…interwoven appreciation of the neural function with literary commentary
What Is Literature For? – A Symposium on Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks” (LARB): Three reviews of Wonderworks (two glowing, one scathing) and a reply by the author. Erik J. Larson: “All of this tech-talk injected into literature would seem superficial,…
Study finds half of Americans get news on social media, but percentage has dropped
A new report from Pew Research finds that around a third of U.S. adults continue to get their news regularly from Facebook, though the exact percentage has slipped from 36% in 2020 to 31% in 2021. This drop reflects an overall slight decline in the number of Americans who say they get their news from […]
No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)
Books compete in a crowded market for a sliver of our attention. “One of the biggest ironies about this business is that there are lots of people who want to become authors, but that doesn’t necessarily equate with the number of people who are voraciou…