This is supercool: Hyperallergic reports programmer Jamie Zawinski has created a digital rendering of the library of Babel from Jorge Luis Borges’s short story of the same name, which imagines an institution intended to house all potential books. You might also enjoy our 2013 piece about a discovered set of Borges lectures from a class the author taught in Argentina in 1966.
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Incendiary Verse
Do you love poetry, but often wish you were monitored on more government watchlists? Well, now you can scratch both of those itches by purchasing Poetry of the Taliban, a new anthology endorsed by and published on the group’s website. Unsurprisingly, the book has garnered its share of criticism, but as Melville House’s Kelly Burdick notes, it also has a coalition of allies and proponents.
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I Ain’t Sayin’ Eustace Tilley is a Gold-Digger…
Apropos of our popular "Open Letter to Kanye West," may we recommend the "Shouts & Murmurs in this week's New Yorker? "I have more than a million [Facebook] fans," writes a certain unnamed narrator. "Do you know how many fans Books have? Twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-four."
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The FBI Analyzes Gone Girl
Recommended viewing: an FBI agent takes a look at Amy Dunne's story from Gone Girl and, surprise!, finds it a little lacking.
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