Links 28. September 2026

The Fantastic Gustave Doré Wunderschönes Buch. Muss … unbedingt … widerstehen. On reading books »Much ink has been spilled about the decline of reading and literacy and how we’re becoming a post-literate society, so I’ll only touch on it lightly: the main reason for this decline is access to higher-calorie entertainment with lower nutrient density—mostly short-form video. This really started with television in the 1960s, yet only became an intellectual crisis in the past two decades thanks to Netflix and YouTube. It was surprising to learn that blue-collar workers in the ’50s had better literacy than college-educated adults today […]« Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Tradition of Apocalypse Gute Güte, auch schon zwanzig Jahre alt. Hat mich je ein Buch so mitgenommen wie The Road? Eindrücke daraus habe ich jedenfalls noch jahrelang mit mir herumgeschleppt. Books aren’t dead »They’re just sleeping.«