November 08, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

Why else does the European Union exist but to pit countries against one another and routinely shame nations by comparison? This time, Britain has unbelievably come out top as the… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

Did everyone get the first line of Beowulf wrong.. or did Seamus Heaney get it right?

Claire Kelley

UPDATE: Dr. George Walkden responds below. Earlier this week, The Independent reported that the first line of Beowulf has been incorrectly translated for hundreds of years. According to research by… Read more »

This week in 1913: Camus is born, Hitler paints a picture, and Kafka takes two trains

Melville House

Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »

Sure, why wouldn’t there be a Jane Austen RPG that uses gossip as a weapon?

Kirsten Reach

Today we introduce you to Ever Jane, an RPG from Developer 3 Turn Productions which stars characters from Jane Austen’s novels who are out to destroy one another. Or at… Read more »

The Internet Archive suffers fire damage

Julia Fleischaker

The Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center announced on their website today that a fire in their building has caused significant damage. On The Internet Archive homepage, the Archive identifies… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 8, 2013

Britain is the most cultured society in the EU, thanks to the eurozone crisis

Zeljka Marosevic