Reasons to memorize a whatchamacallit
As reported earlier on MobyLives, British education secretary, Michael Gove, has brought forward a new national curriculum—one that includes the mandatory learning of a foreign language as early as seven… 1 / Read more »
I’ve been Kerouacking through life — but I should have been a Faulkner
Alexander Nazaryan at the Daily News (New York — not L.A. or Galveston) has compiled a list of neologisms, taken from the online Urban Dictionary, all derived from the names of famous… Read more »
Putin proposes Russian literary canon that’s “scary as hell”
In a waaaay too long essay (in English) for the Russian government newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Vladimir Putin declares that he wants to establish a “Russian Canon” of 100 books that—as a summary… 1 / Read more »