All posts tagged with literature

Science fiction and "literary" approaches to climate change

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NPR did a segment on how “literary” authors are using climate change as a plot hook: So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?”.

Race and Tolkien

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Henry Gee comments in the Guardian about the other kind of hobbits, featuring orc reproductive biology: “Hobbits and hypotheses”.

Telling stories

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Are narrative stories the glue that holds society together? That’s the thesis of literature professor Jonathan Gottschall, who has written for the Boston Glo...

Quote: The lark or the eagle

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Nero Wolfe, in Fer-de-Lance:

Quote:Neil Stephenson on America

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I like this quote from Neil Stephenson, in his work, “In the beginning was the command line.”

Quote: John Dos Passos on academic fashions

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Writer-historian John Dos Passos, in the Paris Review, interviewed in 1968, referring to the academic treatment of modern literature:

Whitman, "Beginning my studies"

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Walt Whitman:

Reflecting on Nabokov

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Carl Zimmer yesterday had a NY Times article about some new genetic work on butterflies – the interesting thing was that the work vindicated a scenario for N...

Colouring Darwin's edits

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Thanks to a reader: Seed interviewed Ben Fry, maker of a new software tool that visualizes the changes through six editions of The Origin of Species.

Sherlock Holmes on the nonimportance of theories

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R. Ford Denison:

John Hawks

All posts tagged with literature