The British Library is launching a new iPad app that will eventually feature over 60,000 19th century books.
The British Library Goes Digital
Uncanny Valley
“I was performing an experiment. I wanted to see [how] one of the greatest minds in history would be affected by an experience he had never had before: imbibing a suitable dose of clinical LSD in a desert setting of great magnificence, and then adding to that various kinds of entertainment.” An oral account of a 1975 trip to Death Valley with Michel Foucault.
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Men Crying Over Poetry
A new anthology celebrates poetry “that moves men to tears,” and it includes the likes of Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie. Meanwhile, for BBC Newsnight, Clive James gets choked up while reading Keith Douglas’s “Canoe.”
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Occupy History
Recommended reading for history buffs in favor of wealth redistribution: Occupy History.
The Importance of Being Oscar
A new Oscar Wilde letter has been discovered, in which he advises a Mr. Morgan to "make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you."
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Modern Canterbury Tales
If Chaucer lived today, The Canterbury Tales might look a little bit like this.
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Lethem on Dyer
Jonathan Lethem's profile of Geoff Dyer for BOMB Magazine is available online for a limited time only.
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