In January 2021, Dædalus became an Open Access journal. The editors of Dædalus thank you for your patience while they work to digitize the back catalog. The current edition of the quarterly journal Dædalus is available online, and as you can see from the above quote from their “About” page they are working to make […]
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Many thanks to Terry Teachout for the article on Syracuse Stage’s video production of the stage play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. As Teachout notes, Syracuse Stage’s revival of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” directed by Robert Hupp, is a thrilling staging of one of the best English-language plays of the 20th century, and it comes across online […]
Beginning tonight and continuing each day for the duration of the Met’s closure, an encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 3:30 p.m. the following day. More information at the Met’s website. Quite an impressive line-up for the first week: Monday, March 16: Bizet’s […]
Travel & Leisure recently posted an article titled Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch. The twelve museums are British Museum, London Guggenheim Museum, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Musée d’Orsay, Paris National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Pergamon Museum, Berlin […]
I’m updating this post because of Grant Hart’s recent death. My range of focus online has narrowed quite a bit, but I was surprised how little I saw about this as it was happening. What he contributed to me is difficult to quantify, but I have to say the influence was substantial. I guess I […]
We are a couple of chapters away from finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, just in time for the class the oldest boy is taking. The ladies at LitWits have posted resources pages at their site (update: Tom Sawyer booklet not consistently available) and on their Pinterest board. Be sure to check out their other book resources […]
Since my notes on several books I’ve read have been lost, I thought I would start posting on what I’m currently reading…which is many articles about Miklós Szentkuthy as well as the recently released translation of Towards the One and Only Metaphor. Instead of having 20 tabs open in my browser I’m going to collect […]
Thanks to Michael Stein at literalab for his notice that Twisted Spoon Press’ tumblr had published an excerpt from their forthcoming release The Legs of Izolda Morgan. (Note: excerpt has been changed to “Polish Futurism (an Accounting)”) The Hungarian Electronic Library may no longer be active but it still has several translated works available online, including […]
I recently discovered the Chief of U.K. Defence Staff’s Recommended Reading [Note: link not currently working] site and have been browsing through it. One book stood out since it addresses one of my favorites: Thucydides on Strategy [ditto] by Athanassios G. Platias and Konstantinos Koliopoulos. This slim volume shows that the theory of grand strategy […]
In his own words: The Paris Review interview with Terry Southern in 1958. INTERVIEWER: I’d like to ask you some questions now about the work itself. You’ve described your novels as “nonrepresentational.” I wonder if you’d mind defining that term? GREEN: “Nonrepresentational” was meant to represent a picture which was not a photograph, nor a […]