Reflections May 2021
The cost of words
On the history and economics of the written word.
On the history and economics of the written word.
On the un-zooing of the zoo.
On some midcentury bestsellers.
On collecting books.
On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
On revisiting the works of the British mystery writer.
On Lali and Freddy Horstmann.
On the philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand.