Archive - The Library of Babel

March 2025

George Orwell's Dark Fairy Tale

Animal Farm: a fairy tale of power and betrayal

Mar 27 •

On Developing Taste (and the Death of Surprise)

Some thoughts on developing great taste—and the price of refinement

Mar 24 •

Did Virginia Woolf Write the Perfect Fantasy Novel of the Twentieth Century?

Introducing Orlando: a Young English Nobleman Who Lives for About Three Hundred Years and Becomes a Woman Along the Way

Mar 19 •

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

Ulysses by James Joyce

Mar 13 •

How a Novel Without the Letter 'E' Became a Haunting Metaphor for the Holocaust

Like many survivors of the Holocaust, the life of Jewish-French writer Georges Perec was marked by absence and loss.

Mar 10 •

A 19th century guided tour of Hell for Children

Meet "The Sight of Hell" by John Furniss

Mar 6 •

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

The White Album by Joan Didion

Mar 3 •

How Not to Feel Like a Total Stranger in Your Own Home Library

A few thoughts of my own and one question for you

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Homer and the Birth of Hell

How the Ancient Greek Poet Shaped the Christian Underworld

Feb 26 •

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