Silences And Sounds

I have committed enough prose here this year that the process of looking back was actually helpful for me – and I hope it surfaces some th...

Not everything I read this year was about invented worlds . A significant portion of my reading life was spent with books that insist on t...

I had an incredible year in booklandia, reading nearly 200 books. Of course, 60 of those were read during my Asian sojourn, and many of th...

Once upon a time as recently as yesterday, I lived in a world in which Google Translate was an imperfect but useful tool. I could ask it ...

For today’s post, to be clear, my role is amplifier first, and commentator second. In case you wondered what academics do for fun, well,...

This post on the Bregenz “Schützenbruderschaft” is organized into three parts. Part 1 presents extended excerpts from the Bregenz Schütz...

Time to explore another fine example of medieval art from the Moravian Gallery in Brno (Czech: Moravská galerie v Brně ), this time a bo...