The Library of Babel

What Do Women Want?

The Wife of Bath and the Art of Reading Wrong

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

Don Quixote of New Jersey

The First Novel of the West Is Really a Messy Love Story to an Older Genre

Sep 22 • 

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Sing, Goddess!

The Muse Was There All Along

Sep 14 • 

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August 2025

Maybe what I need to do is to post some fiction

I don't take this lightly...

Aug 11 • 

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April 2025

"In the Beginning": The Jewish Debate Over What Came First

The very ancient, endlessly fascinating debate on the question of what came first in the creation of the world

Apr 13 • 

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Painting God in Words

The ancient Hebrew book that dared to describe God's dimensions

Apr 9 • 

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The Talmudic Sage Who Saw Two Gods in Heaven

The story of the first Jewish heretic

Apr 6 • 

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March 2025

George Orwell's Dark Fairy Tale

Animal Farm: a fairy tale of power and betrayal

Mar 27 • 

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On Developing Taste (and the Death of Surprise)

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

Mar 24 • 

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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 • 

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

Ulysses by James Joyce

Mar 13 • 

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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 • 

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