Truth Be Told
Why I? Caroline Winter on the story of an unusual capitalization.
Back in 1947, Malcolm Lowry took umbrage with Jacques Barzun’s review of Under the Volcano. Wyatt Mason has found for us Lowry’s strongly-worded rejoinder: “I have never read Ulysses full through …”
Philip Corbett solves a mystery dear to the hearts of second-rate writers everywhere.
The fact is that it’s damn easy to fool people. Skeptical? Sure you are. But don’t you remember the Sokal Hoax? What about Frederic Bourdin and these two recent additions to the annals of fraudulence. And now we have a neuroscience of magic. Believe you me: we’re chumps, all right. Its bred in the bone.
Reissued! On Reading by André Kertész, just in time.
Pity Guy LaRoche, subtitler.
Letting it rip, at last: University Diary’s “Professor Meets Gun” series crosses the threshold.
Our friend at Quid Plura offers keen insight on the “matrix of grudges” in the Caucasus, from the really invaluable medieval perspective. And there’s poetry, too: “Whom nature had moulded with small limbs but great courage and dyed his eyes with a terrible anger …”
One Way Street inches toward a history of line.
Did you hear about the time that Maud Newton’s great-grandfather killed a man with a hay hook? “The difficulty” started in a feed store …
That’s it for a while: Ducks and Drakes is on holiday for what’s left of August.
Chin up! You know what to do while I’m gone.
