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Books Will Abide, Though Readers May Not

Posted on: 10/04/202511/12/2025

James Marriott’s essay on the “dawn of the post-literate society” supports what to me has been evident for over a decade: in the wake of the smartphone, book readership has diminished and so has the […]

Academia / Culture / Literature / Poetry

High-tech Poetry Bitch

Posted on: 08/09/200505/17/2024

They had big dictums, deep erudition and cunning linguistics. Marianne Moore translated La Fontaine’s easygoing French into an English of conspicuous difficulty. In Pound’s hands the rudimentary Italian of the troubadours and bare-bones Chinese of […]