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As easy on the eyes as paper – On books and e-readers

By TF | Published: January 14, 2010
E-readers are the way of the reading future, seemingly whether we like it or not. But are digital books an attempt to fix a reading experience that isn’t broken? I once worked in an art museum where my primary role was to stop people from touching the works. Of course, it didn’t say it like [...]
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Public Library 27.11

By TF | Published: November 27, 2009
Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay. “In the first place, “well-made novel” seems to me to be a kind of Platonic bogeyman, existing everywhere in an ideal realm but in few spots on this earth.” Excellent essay on the similarities and differences between the essay and the novel. From The Guardian. Midnight in [...]
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Public Library 20.11

By TF | Published: November 20, 2009
Kabul: City Number One – Part 5 – Intercontinental. Part five of Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan expands on the (failed) westernisation of Afghanistan. The Robert Louis Stevenson Website. Includes all RLS’s written works. Michael Wood on Roland Barthes. A retrospective look at the French literary theorist/philospher/semiotician in the context of two new releases by him. [...]
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Public Library 23.8

By TF | Published: August 23, 2009
First and, as far as we’re concerned, foremost, our More or Less fiction series. Will the internet create a universal writing system? OUP has its say. How can uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out if they don’t exist? Via The Guardian. Amir Sulaiman’s ‘Love Song’. Not a song about love - love as song. A song that [...]
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Public library 13.7

By TF | Published: July 13, 2009
Fantastic article on the experiences of a group of Marines in the first days of the war in Iraq/Guld War II/whatever it’s called by Evan Wright, from 2003. It’s immersion journalism at its best and we can’t speak highly enough of it. The quotes alone are worth the read. Via Rolling Stone. Buzz Aldrin talks [...]
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