Happy Hallowe’en!

Links of interest from the past week:

Ten Scary Classical Music Pieces for Halloween (listen)
“Great music pierces the soul…and can sometimes terrify it.”

Review: The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron
He was mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Also a plagiarist, and a terrible friend.

Serendipity in the Stacks: A Case Against Bookless Libraries
“I’m not convinced that form doesn’t matter.” Indeed—neither are we. Speaking of books…

French Culture Minister's Prosaic Reading List Draws Criticism
She hasn’t read a book in two years. Says one Frenchman, aghast: “Barbarism is here.”

Renderings: Encounters and Translations (watch)
In the spirit of the transnational exhibition “Exchange Rates Bushwick,” the artist/translator/organizer Paul D'Agostino hosted a "series of readings and presentations of translations rendered, translations encountered, translations variably treasured." Watch the event, which features Dara Mandle, Matthew Rossi, Alice Lynn McMichael, Andrea Monti, and Todd Portnowitz, online.


From our pages:

The Wizard of "Is"
A review of “Metaphor” by Denis Donoghue.

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