2020-10-12
I read The History of the Bible this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. I have a little collection of books about theology now, not because of any interest in faith but because I think it’s an interesting vein of history and culture. The bible is so often quoted, wittingly or unwittingly, in popular culture and everyday speech. Here are some good excerpts from the book. The first I’ve included because I like the readings of the Old Testament that give God a personality.literature
2020-10-12
2020-07-15
Igbo Orthography and The Ndebe Script
2020-07-15
Haruki Murakami Challenged On Women
2020-04-07
How a French Midwife Solved a Public Health Crisis
2020-04-02
Greta Gerwig and the Politics of Women's Genres
2020-02-10
James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor
2020-02-10
Exploring the World of Paradise Lost
2020-01-15
2019-10-01
I read the Penguin Classics translation of Wasps by Aristophanes the other day. It’s a satirical play about how an older generation of Athenians who fought in the Peloponnesian War were taken in by a pandering demagogue called Cleon. To grasp what’s happening and get the jokes, you have to know a little bit about the context of Athenian politics at the time and how the jury system worked. But all of that is explained in a very quick note at the beginning of the edition.