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We tend to think of the physical printed book as a traditional format. In our own cultural moment, people often draw a contrast between printed books you can leaf through, dog-ear, or scrawl in, and their newer digital versions, including audiobooks, ebooks, and e-readers. These two forms of the book have regularly been pitted against […]
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Comics are immensely volatile, existing in numerous forms, acquiring different degrees of acclaim (and disdain or indifference): they have designated sections in newspapers, they have leant characters and storyworlds to blockbuster films, they have won literary prizes and they also appear without ISBN numbers and circulate within selected communities as zines. Before becoming the ninth […]
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A friend told me recently that a young lecturer had agreed to teach the Romantics paper at her university on one condition. She asked to be excused from teaching Byron. It was chastening news for someone who had just written a book on Don Juan, Byron’s greatest poem. My first response was outrage. If a […]
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Illustration from the “Hobo” News 2:2, May 1916, p.14. From St Louis Public Library, scan taken by Owen Clayton. Travelling wanderers, whether called vagabonds, tramps, hobos or something else, have long held a romantic mystique in America culture. In the famous song King of the Road, for example, Roger Miller encapsulates the carefree life of […]
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In a 2014 conversation in Chicago, Art Spiegelman summarized his understanding of the path taken by comics, once known primarily as cheap and popular entertainment: “[W]hen something is no longer a mass medium, it has to become art or it dies. I figured it was necessary for comics to find their way into libraries, bookstores, […]
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In Vikings: Valhalla, the drama television series created for Netflix, one of the central characters is Leif Eriksson, who comes from the outer fringes of the known world, along with other Norse Greenlanders. While the representations in the series may be fanciful, the existence of Norse inhabitants in Greenland is a historical fact. In the […]
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I spent the dark and snowy winter months that began 2021 under lockdown in my mother’s house in rural Wales. My mother, however, was not there: she, suffering from Alzheimer’s, was confined in a care home in the next town, unable to receive visitors for fear of Covid and unable, also, to understand what was […]
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On the very day that Cambridge University Press listed my Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid in its “Most Recently Published Books” announcement, I opened an electronic version of in The New York Times (nytimes.com April 7, 2023) and found, to my delight, an opinion guest essay written by the mathematician Sarah B. […]
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