Category: words

The 1948 work, called Footlights and thought to be the source of Chaplin’s 1952 film Limelight, was reconstructed from numerous manuscripts in his archives.

“Hassan Blasim calculates that after several decades of dictatorship, economic sanctions and war, Iraqis have around 150 million horror stories to tell.”

“Scientific publishing is clearly in flux. Not that long ago, most colleagues I spoke with saw the push for open-access publishing as the quixotic crusade of a few enthusiasts. Today, open-access journals are major players who fill the scientific community’s growing demand for places to publish.”

“Christian publishing is a $1.4 billion market, and many major publishers have Christian imprints.” Another market for Amazon to conquer?

“More and more I find myself reading headlines and articles that suggest that the evils once confined to fairytales and folklore have burst their fictive boundaries and bled into the real world.”

“Fiction is the second life of a city and has a profound effect on the way it is experienced by visitors and its inhabitants.”

“I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I’m absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility.”

Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian’s chief arts writer and a classicist herself, recounts how the poems were found, explains how we know they’re Sappho’s, and provides plenty of background – plus a translation of one of the poems.

Laura Miller: “That’s one of the most acrimonious, endless and irresolvable discussions in the literary world. … But there are a few places where deciding whether a book is a classic or not has real consequences. One is, obviously, classrooms, but the other is bookstores.” How do, or should, they make that decision?