Culture Industry

The letter carrier & the UPS person have been dropping off a steady stream of books over the past few days. I finally decided to get ser...

[Robert von Hallberg, eminent retiree ] The lastest Chicago Review is out, & as usual it's both a beautiful artifact and a fascinat...

That time of year is upon us: the semester begins next week, & I'm as usual trembling in my boots (well, sandals) at the prospect. I...

We arrived back from NYC last night, after a purgatorial trip – endless security lines at LaGuardia with our two small children, numerous ca...

Tomorrow P. & I leave for the northeast, & we'll be there almost thru the end of the year, so I don't imagine I'll be do...

I love a post like that last one , or at least the reactions to it – here, read this, read the other... It's like having a real, you kno...

I am not, alas, a romantic, in any sense of the word. I have some friends who are true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool romantics (like Eric) in the ...

No, it's not Santa Claus, but Geoffrey Hill, as pictured in this Oxford Today feature on his entry as Oxford Professor of Poetry. Not ...

[Peter O'Leary, February 2008] We were talking at the pub last night about the sensation of reaching a certain age – a certain point at ...

A couple years back, my most delicious internet reading was the blog Faits Divers de la Poésie Américaine et Brittanique , a series of for t...

So the "BBC 100 books" meme is going around Facebook again. You've seen it -- it's a list of 100 books, chosen by some arc...

From K. W. Gransden's Virgil: The Aeneid (Landmarks of Western Literature) (Cambridge UP, 1990). We all know about Eclogue 4, right? You...

Addendum to the below (& perhaps a mortal blow for my potential use of Sarah Ruden's version of the Aeneid in next semester's c...

This holiday morning I'm brooding over book orders. Yes, I turned them in weeks ago, but it's probably not too late for revisions. H...

Two of my favorite academic-type blogs have shut down: Michael Bérubé's (again, perhaps this time for good?), and Dr. No's painfull...

Guy Davenport once told me he figured he received at least one book a day – review copies, authors' gifts, etc. I began to feel that way...

In an idle moment today – after I finished The Philosophy of History , and between books 7 & 8 of Paradise Lost – I sat down to think a...

The "brown bag" lunchtime talk advertised in the last post got talked today. It went over pretty well, I thought – at least, talki...

(Yes, that's the back cover of Never Mind the Bollocks ; click on the image to get a legible version.)

In my department mailbox today two new New Directions Ezra Pound volumes, New Selected Poems and Translations , edited by Richard Sieburth, ...