Paul Cartledge spoke at the SPHS Autumn Lecture, Tuesday November 12th 2013 held at The Hellenic Centre in London. Thanks to David Meadows at rogueclassicism for posting a link to this lecture. My post on the book can be found here. “The story I have woven…is one of commemoration, of rivalry, classically ancient Greek rivalry […]
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What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient by Vlas DoroshevichTranslated by Rowen Glie (in collaboration with Ronald M. Landau) and John DeweyGlas New Russian Writing: 2012 (Volume 53)ISBN 978-5-7172-0094-3 Earlier this year I expressed my admiration for the works of Anatoly Mariengof published by Glas (Cynics and A Novel Without Lies). […]
Blogger tells me this is my 1,000th post on this site. So I’ll pass along a picture I took today while the boys and I were touring the mining museum in New Almaden, California. I just wish I had a book with me to drop in the lending library. If you’d like to learn about […]
A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century by Benjamin Buford Williams Associated University Presses, Inc.: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1979 ISBN: 0-8386-2054-X This post is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ben and Marilyn Williams. I consider myself fortunate to have been friends of theirs. This study is a biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological […]
Primo Levi’s Universe: A Writer’s Journey by Sam Magavern Foreword by Jonathan Rosen, Afterword by Risa Sodi Palgrave Macmillan: New York City, 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-60647-0 [W]hen we read all of Levi’s writings together, we find that he has woven a great and terrifying testament, one of the most vital bodies of work in modern literature. […]
I had tentative plans for November to post on American women authors but I was sidetracked, willingly, into reading more books by and about Primo Levi. I plan to post on If This Is a Man and The Truce and three movies (Primo Levi’s Journey, The Truce, and Primo Mysteries) during the month. I’ll start […]
I’ll have some posts soon on the books I’m reading but they will take a couple of days. In the meantime, here’s a perfect fall meal accompaniment. It takes a lot of time to prepare but I vouch that it is well worth it. Dial back the Chimayo pepper to your own taste. Blue Corn […]
Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul R. Gregory Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, California, October 2013 Hardcover, 264 pages ISBN 9780817915742I have not posted on much of the non-fiction I’ve read this year, something I’m determined to correct starting with this marvelous history/memoir by Paul Gregory. Links: There is plenty of […]
Relations by Zsigmond Móricz Translated by Bernard Adams Introduction by George F. Cushing Corvina Books, Ltd. (2007) ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6Posts: “The only relation to love is the one that’s of use to you”: problems in post-World War I Hungary Lina and Magdaléna Solutions? Introduction to Móricz and the novel My notes Another […]
Zsigmond Móricz Relations by Zsigmond MóriczTranslated by Bernard AdamsIntroduction by George F. CushingCorvina Books, Ltd. (2007)ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6 In my first post on Relations, I included Móricz’s idea for the novel: When he began to write it Móricz declared, “I postulated the idea that in every family there is one man, the […]