Recently added articles from World Literature Today:
@first glance.(The Rights of the Reader)(Excerpt)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Pennac, Daniel ... "We want to share our love of books all too often choose to act as commentators. As interpreters, analysts, critics, and biographers, smothering great works in pious testimonies. Victims of our proficiency, the words in books give way to our own. Rather than allowing a book's intelligence ...
Editor's note.
Sep 01, 2008; Clark, David Draper ... "I cannot live without books."--Thomas Jefferson Providing brief introductory remarks for this issue's special section on book culture and the book arts is both exhilarating and daunting. I have experienced no greater joy professionally than that derived from books and the ...
Life on the borderlines.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Berry, Lauren ... I was really shocked to hear of the murder situation in Mexico when I read the essay by Stephanie Elizondo Griest in your May issue ("Malaleche, Spoiled Milk"). It was very touching. She got to the point, yet she didn't fail to share the reality. It's a shame that the government in ...
Upcoming events.(Goteborg Book Fair and Franfurt Book Fair)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 9.25-28 With an estimated 100,000 visitors over four days, the Goteborg Book Fair is one of the largest literary events in Europe. Though this year's "country in focus" is Latvia, authors from around the world will be in attendance to ...
Blindness in theaters.(notebook)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The highly anticipated screen adaptation of Jose Saramago's Blindness comes to theaters this fall. Directed by Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, City of God), the film offers moviegoers a startling visual representation of Saramago's chilling and ...
13 books that changed America.(notebook)(Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America )(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Of Plymouth Plantation The Federalist Papers The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Journals of Lewis & Clark Walden Uncle Tom's Cabin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Souls of Black Folk The Promised Land How to Win Friends and Influence People ...
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop Lewis Buzbee (Graywolf Press) These days it's hard to find the sort of small, neighborhood bookshop Lewis Buzbee romanticizes in his new memoir. Their cozy corners and cavernous rows of shelves have in recent years ...
Amorisco.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Amorisco Khaled Mattawa (Ausable Press) Libyan ...
Minus.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Minus Roman Senchin (Glas) Through the eyes of a young, ...
Burma Chronicles.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Burma Chronicles Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly) Delisle continues in the ...
Bibliophiles, bibliomysteries, and books to be read.(International Crime & Mystery)
Sep 01, 2008; Davis, J Madison ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A scholar of the eighteenth century once told me that the great brontosaur of English literature, Dr. Samuel Johnson, was setting out to create his groundbreaking edition of Shakespeare when he borrowed copies of the First Folio and other early printings ....
House by the Railroad, 1925.(poetry)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; Farres, Ernest ... <Pre> House by the Railroad, 1925 I fantasize that luck is placedwithin my reach. Of course, there's different kinds.Take the kind that turns up ad hoc, for instance,and the kind that unfoldsbackwards. There are deficits and surplusesof luck. By the same ...
New York Restaurant, ca. 1922.(poetry)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; Farres, Ernest ... <Pre> New York Restaurant, ca. 1922 I eat three meals a day,twenty-one per week,about ninety a monthand a thousand-and-ninety-fivein a year, and the one timeI get you to a table, we're out of synchand bored. Our voicesfraught with indecision ...
Humor is an instrument of combat: a conversation with Amara Lakhous.(Q&A)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2008; Ruta, Suzanne ... Four million Italians emigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1920. Like other immigrant groups arriving en masse in those years, they were scapegoated--accused of political terrorism (the anarchists) or a generalized connection with organized crime, a bum rap they still can't ...
Book culture: why there are pages and why they must turn: books are not confined to their material instantiations. They are present in oral as well as written cultures. Indeed, they appear to be, for the human species, a cultural universal.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2008; Bringhurst, Robert ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I think the whole point of a book is the text--the verbal creation of the author. Type, like handwriting, is simply a system of visible signs that still speech into a special form, which waits to be resurrected n the human voice--to be re-created, because ...
A cottage in the woods.(book culture)(Essay)
Sep 01, 2008; Moser, Barry ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This essay is adapted from the Naomi C. Chase Lecture in Children's Literature given June 20, 2006, at the Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota. When you walk in the back door of our house, the first things you see are books. Hundreds of ...
Manga in Manhattan, Scott McCloud's twelve revolutions, and comics' perfect storm.(book culture)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2008; Vollmar, Rob ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In May, Bluesman author Rob Vollmar spoke with Understanding Comics author Scott McCloud about McCloud's career as a comics creator and critical writer in the genre. An excerpt of that interview is published here; for the expanded text, visit our website ...
The current outlook: the book collector's golden age?(book culture)
Sep 01, 2008; Ahearn, Allen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Allen and Patricia Ahearn, both members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, became booksellers in 1962, specializing in first editions, a specialty that continues today. Their store, the Quill & Brush (named for its initial focus on ...
A conversation with bookseller Jim Tolbert.(book culture)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2008; Clark, David Draper ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jim Tolbert, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Stanford University, has had a rich and varied forty-year career as a company doctor (fixer of distressed companies), civic leader, and investor. The passion of his life, however, is bookselling ....
Between the covers: reflections of a book artist.(book culture)(book conservation)
Sep 01, 2008; Richards, Sean E. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As an apprentice to the craft of binding and restoring rare books, the author discovered "the sense of pride that comes from being part of a lineage stronger than blood and the responsibility of passing on that craft to the next heir." By the ...