Literature

Reflections in the mirror

‘Acquiring Empathy through Essays’ by William Bradley, in Utne Reader.

Friends or foes

Extract from William Hazlitt‘s ‘On Reading Old Books’.

Face of an alarm clock

‘An A to Z of theory’, Ceasefire discuss Walter Benjamin on Surrealism, storytelling and cultural politics.

American Oulipo

In Vice, Blake Butler writes on the many false floors of Harry Mathews.

From under the shadow of Joyce & Beckett

Julian Gough reviews The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien in the New York Times.