Were Sainte-Beuve alive today

Frank Wilson, author and proprietor of Books, Inq. , makes the case for book blogging as “just another technological extension of literary ...

Guest of the non-fiction novelist

Benjamin Stein, the German novelist and blogger (whose contribution to the symposium on The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time a...

Why intellectuals are political

Why are literary intellectuals addicted to politics? For Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher , the answer is obvious. “[T]he human bei...

As long as it is insightful and disciplined

The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time, 4 by Benjamin Stein Turmsegler I started writing short stories and poems when I was ten. ...

Sticking to his last

Michael Gilleland, author of Laudator Temporis Acti , is surprised that anyone bothers to read his blog , despite its endless fascination, i...

Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time, 2

by Mark Athitakis American Fiction Notes What are the non-electronic precursors of book blogging? Funny: The first thing that popped into my...

Symposium

The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time Newspaper book-review pages are going the way of the sestina and the villanelle. Is it uto...