January 01, 1991

The Commonwealth of Letters

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2023
Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West (McCarthy)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2023
Selected Poems (Hall)
Poems New and Collected, 1957--1997 (Szymborska)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2023
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Guillory)
Positive-Definite Tab Closure
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2020
The Gist of Reading (Elfenbein)
Archaic Smile (Stallings)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2020
Far Country: Scenes from American Culture (Moretti)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2019
Fox (Ugresic)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2018
Like: Poems (Stallings)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2018
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Jasanoff)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2018
Morphology of the Folktale (Propp)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2018
The Inferno (Aligheri, trans. Pinsky)
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings (Ferdowsi, trans. Sadri)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2017
Housekeeping (Robinson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2017
Bel Canto (Patchett)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2016
The Robot Scientist's Daughter (Gailey)
Field Guide to the End of the World (Gailey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2016
The Conference of the Birds (Sis)
"Reassembling the History of the Novel"
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2015
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2015
The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680--1715 (Hazard)
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2014
Lord Jim (Conrad)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2014
The Devil in Silver (LaValle)
Skin (Skin)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2014
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Memed, My Hawk (Kemal)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2014
Wolf Totem (Jiang)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2014
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Semple)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2014
Distant Reading (Moretti)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2013
The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead (Davidson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2013
Unexplained Fevers (Gailey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (Mitchell)
Gain (Powers)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2012
The Tiger's Wife (Obreht)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2012
My Name Is Red (Pamuk)
Thinking the Twentieth Century (Judt and Snyder)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2012
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Johnson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2012
Dick of the Dead (Loden)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Greenblatt)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2011
Treason's Harbour; The Far Side of the World; The Reverse of the Medal (O'Brian)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2011
Hark! A Vagrant (Beaton)
She Returns to the Floating World (Gailey)
F For Fake (Wells et al.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2011
The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War; The Surgeon's Mate; The Ionian Mission (O'Brian)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2011
Cold Skin (Pinol)
H.M.S. Surprise (O'Brian)
Transistor Rodeo (Wilkins)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2011
Master and Commander; Post Captain (O'Brian)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2011
The Nostalgist's Map of America (Ali)
Becoming the Villainess (Gailey)
Lyric Poetry in Pluto's Republic
"Tie this to your lanyard, Billy Collins"
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2011
Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti
War Against the Bookmarks
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010
In which Dunning-Krueger meets Slutsky-Yule, and they make music together
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2010
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2010
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2009
Nazi Literature in the Americas (Bolano)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2009
The Mind-Body Problem: Poems (Pollitt)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2009
Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (McGowan)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2008
Gulf Music: Poems (Pinsky)
A Moral Alphabet of Vice and Folly: Embellished with Nudes and Other Exemplary Materials (Washburn)
Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2008
Hapax: Poems (Stallings)
NaNoWriMo
Failing to Seize the High Ground
An Elegant Author Deserving of the Patronage of a Refined and Enlightened Public
Bush as Intellectual
Zadig, or, The Book of Fate
How to Make Our Ideas Clear --- to Others
A Scene from the Cafe Central
Graphs, Trees, Materialism, Fishing
"Not actually surprising to anyone who had bothered to think"
The Figured Wheel
"saint & or"
And Just Where Did You Get That Idea?
Joan Didion Is Elegantly Shrill; or, "What rough beast, its hour come round at last..."
A Poem Written by Czeslaw Milosz in Berkeley in 1968
Assorted Reading
Pop Quiz
"Now Barabbas was a publisher"
City of the Dead
A Remarkable Likeness
Leszek Kolakowski
From Harlem to Samarkand
Assorted Reading
On a Happier Note
The Literary Theory of a Midwestern Maître à Penser

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