Humans Typing Fast
This morning, I gave myself a classic typing test. There was a reason. I won’t claim it was a good one, but we’ll get to that. It concerned a job I learned about yesterday...
writing and translation
This morning, I gave myself a classic typing test. There was a reason. I won’t claim it was a good one, but we’ll get to that. It concerned a job I learned about yesterday...
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, London: Icon 2008. It is a great title! In the end, though, I decided the title applied — lightly — to just...
Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis, London: Virago, 2024. Can the writer of this very closely-argued, scholarly study be the same Marilynne Robinson we’ve some to know and, at least in my own case, to profoundly...
Rating books is always reductive, unfair: it flattens a full-fledged, 3D experience into a less than a line…just 5 dots! Rating this one is particularly absurd, like passing judgement on the New Testament or...
It’s heartening to know that the celebrated translator Lydia Davis is open, in fact enthusiastic and curious about new, or inventive moves between levels and contexts and forms of language. She has taken a...
Anton Treuer, The Cultural ToolBox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021 I am not Ojibwe. That is, I’m not one of the readers this book explicitly addresses. Still,...