Explore
Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature...
6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History
Link URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/famous-librarians-who-changed-history Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~books/1fmy/six_badass_librarians_who_changed_history Votes: 10 Comments: 0
How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel
Many Americans might think of Rip Van Winkle as the first man to nod off and...
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier...
Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935)
Here in the twenty-twenties, a hopeful young novelist might choose to enroll in one of a...
Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
Excerpts from Lyn Hejinian's My Life: "A name trimmed with colored ribbons"; "Reason looks for two,...
The End of the Road: John Barth dies at 93
John Barth, author of books like Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse, Letters and Tidewater Tales,...
Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912)
Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems...
Every day, there were fewer and fewer kings.
The Achilles Trap doubles as a surprisingly sympathetic study of a man who, as his powers...
Everyone has an anecdote about García Márquez
I decided, last year, to turn on my recorder again and ask about these past ten...
To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it.
After Mrs. Dalloway and before To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf wrote her first essay for The...
When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a “fireman” tasked with incinerating what few books...
How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever
Though Jane Austen hasn’t published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year...
Those seams we are seduced into not seeing
Let me offer a couple examples of how the arts challenge AI. First, many have pointed...
Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland predates the invention of cinema by a couple of decades. Nevertheless, much...
The Time Is Double-Jointed
"Gorey's approach to the representation of time is obviously variegated. His works are commonly set within...
Executors of collective falsehoods
The chief and lethal irony of Fixer is that the more William persecutes the rich, the...
The Second Death of Pablo Neruda
It may come as no surprise that a country as deeply polarized by its recent history...
The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
“Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously...
