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...camels.”The illustrious Buenos Aires author was a little off: The Koran actually does allude to camels twice, in passages 6:144 and 22:36. But despite the humps in his logic, Borges’s argument still holds water. The unfortunate truth is that many books written by non-Western novelists in English—especially those by South Asian authors—rely on the equivalent of camels for effect, peppering works with spices and ceremonies, arranged marriages and zany in-laws: in short, deploying the stalest, most predictable tropes in the Orientalist handbook. Book...
...think it’s fair to say I’m more liberal than most of my colleagues,” says Marglin, whose most recent book was titled: “The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community.” A tenured professor at Harvard since 1968, he says he is aware of the uniqueness of his outlook within the Littauer building, home of the Economics Department. “I don’t think there is anybody who shares my views,” he says...
...publishing world confirm—if not explain—its existence. Meet the “vook,” which, according to a description on the company’s website, “is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.” Recently, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, has teamed up with Vook to release several titles that readers can watch online or through iTunes. And the vook is not just an example...
...these era-shifting media, it’s worthwhile to look back at the impact of preceding innovations. In “The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution,” historian Roger Chartier describes the impact of the “tripling or quadrupling of book production” on French readers in the decades before the revolution and how “a new way of reading, which no longer took the book as authoritative, became widespread.” In this era, the new innovation, so to speak, could be called the individualized text?...
...rise of the vook provides an occasion to deliver any sort of eulogy, the eulogy must not be for the object of the book itself, but rather for the traditional reader—an essential but tragically uncommon character in the narrative of this Information...