What I Read in September 2026 – The web-walled canyon of a dream

Look, the issue is not that I do not want to write but that the cat in the lap makes it hard to type. September was a long time ago. SHAKESPEARE’S PALS A Book of Ayres (1601) & Two Books of Ayres (1613?) & The Third and Fourth Book of Ayres (1617), Thomas Campion – An unusual poet in English literature, an author of songs who is read for his lyrics, granted that many of them are adaptations of Catullus and Propertius and so on. Such an interesting musical period. Please recommend recordings if you have a favorite. The Naxos volume seems plenty good to me. The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), ??? – Discussed back here. FICTION Titus Groan (1946), Mervyn Peake – I should write about this book separately. It is a marvel. The fragment in the title of the post is from p. 338 of the single-volume Overlook edition. Labyrinths (1953), Jorge Luis Borges – Just the essays, actually, which I suppose in some sense are not fiction. Sleeping Beauty (1973), Ross MacDonald – A kind Brazilian on Twitter,…