Apropos of nothing, here are some books to read when your country is invaded by Russians.
Red Dawn
You Are What You Read
Two new studies reaffirm what good readers (and Quixote and Pechorin) have long known—when you identify with a fictional characters, you are likely to subconsciously emulate them.
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The Why and How of Colophons
Ever wondered why Knopf’s colophon is a borzoi, or why Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s colophon appears to be a musician riding a flying dolphin? Well, now you can find out. Also, a while back, HTMLGIANT‘s Jimmy Chen ranked some colophons by their ability to fly.
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Much Ado About Turkish Publishing
Millions contributor Kaya Genç reports on Istos, a Greek-owned publishing house based in Istanbul, Turkey, that’s “interested in challenging the partial, nostalgic stereotype of the old Greek community as a fashionable elite.” Meanwhile, across town, the Çağlayan Courts of Justice shocked the Turkish literati with a warning for the Sel Publishing House: stop publishing the “obscene” works of writers like William Burroughs and Chuck Palahniuk.
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Copyright
Sherlock Holmes has solved his greatest mystery yet. It only took 125 years, but Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective is in the public domain. A federal judge has ruled that all Sherlock Holmes stories published before January 1, 1923 are no longer under U.S. copyright law.
Can The Millions (and The Rumpus, and every other somewhat-left-leaning lit site) please not traffic in fearmongering regarding Russia? What Sessions did in his confirmation hearing was a terrible and all-too-telling precedent, and there certainly are a whole lot of stray connections between figures involved in Trump’s campaign (and the right-wing / international nationalist movement more generally) that one can conjecture about. But there is as yet no concrete *evidence* of a Russian “invasion.” In the meantime, there are plenty of terrors in the Trump admin’s regard for immigrants and brown and black people for us all to focus on, educate ourselves about, and resist. Same goes for their stance on government agencies and regulations. How about a deregulation reading list, or one that probes Steve Bannon’s desire to gut the government…?