The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
This four volume series by Gene Wolfe is looking to be one of my favorite discoveries this year. Of course, I can’t take credit for “finding” them since Brent both recommended and loaned them to me but I am quite enthralled. Volume one (The Shadow of the Torturer) makes a slow start to the series [...]
As I start to write this, a hundred explanations, apologies and caveats spring to mind. I will not countenance them. Men, you live today in a Western culture that your gender built. The great literary works, the great musical compositions, the great paintings and sculpture are almost exclusively the work of men. I see enormous [...]