Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

On Carson’s “The Gender of Sound”

In an effort to not work-work on Boxing Day, and to give everyone a warm-up for the rest of the week, which will be full of fun and meaningless end-of-year posts, I thought I’d start off today with my long overdue comments on the last piece in Anne Carson’s Glass, Irony & God, [...]

On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf

I so rarely read essays, but a good essay is a wonderful thing and Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill makes me want to change my ways. The essay is all her, structurally, which is to say it appears to flow like a stream but is always under her complete control. She begins by [...]