ancient moderns

Going through notebooks, too lazy to translate. Coming across passages I read in the mid-80s (!), thinking How lovely!  And because this was...

RB

Or take a sentence like this one, from Barthes’s first book. He is not talking about a writer or a text or a style or an image or a story, b...

Not the New Yorker (link fixed)

Mithridates has pointed out that the link in the sidebar to Samizdat doesn't work, because .com got left out after helendewitt. It now...

barthes/chancel

I haven't managed to find my tape of Jacques Chancel's 1975 interview of Roland Barthes for Radioscopie. I have an mp3 recording tha...

Diaspora, Empire

Languagehat has a wonderful post on the Assyrians of Urmia here , drawing on an article by Arianne Ishaya on Nineveh.com. I have a look at ...

The Best of Times

I bought an iMic Griffin off Ebay the other day. As I was leaving the apartment this morning I passed the Postlieferin on the stairs; she h...