Kind of fannish this roundup? And more of the usual: books, history, history, and books. Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between good and evil? In old folktales, no one fights for values. Individual stories might show the virtues of honesty or hospitality, but there’s no agreement among folktales about which actions are good or bad. is "booktok slop" just today's pulp fiction? and encountered an ancient library rarity today from cherry's room. The Life and Death of the Book Review because I've been reading a lot about book reviews recently. Sidenote, the paywall is so unpersuasive I'm not even sure it is a paywall. Book reviewing, it would seem, has been in crisis from the start. As early as 1757, a contributor to Britain’s Literary Magazine complained that “critic is no longer an appellation of dignity,” the world is not made up of words by Meadow links to Library of Babel: 'At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.' Michael O. Church…
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