books
- Forty More Years
For things that don't rot, age runs backwards: the older it is, the longer it will probably last.
- A Prayer to a Man Who Never Lived
While the internet fights over Nolan's Odyssey casting, archaeologists on Ithaca found a shrine to Odysseus that may be older than the Odyssey itself. Which raises an awkward question about who invented whom - and what separates a durable story from a lie.
- Books in the Age of the Machine: A Retreat to the High Ground
The 'death of books' story is already wrong on the numbers. The real question is which analogy books follow — radio, cinema, or newspapers — and that answer decides everything.
