Public Library 22.4

Final Destination. If manuscripts had an afterlife, this would be the preferred to place to go. D.T. Max on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the literary archive of the University of Texas at Austin. Via The New Yorker.

Hedonic Indicators. Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister believed the country’s GNH (gross national happiness) needed to be indexed: “The result is a set of indicators as rigorous as most economic measurements — and far more useful”. By Silver Donald Cameron, via Walrus Magazine.

Reading in a Digital Age. Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary. By Sven Birkerts, via The American Scholar.

Princeton Dante Project. Multimedia, lectures, line-by-line commentary and pretty much everything else related to the Commedia and Dante’s lesser works.

Dancing for their lives. A look at the ‘underground economy’ of Iraqi refugees in the US and the history of prostitution in Iraq. By Deborah Amos, via Foreign Policy.

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