Literature - The Curator Magazine (Page 12)

Red Wolf

Oct 21, 2015 4 min read Literature

Regarded as the Dracula or Frankenstein of werewolf novels by the few who have read it, Guy Endore’sThe Werewolf of Paris is the story of Bertrand Caillet, a young man from the

Perpetual Rediscoveries

Oct 12, 2015 4 min read Literature

Nothing ruins a book faster than a teacher who insists it is important. Scholars with the best argument against the existence of a literary canon use some form of this truism. Tim Parks

Perec in Purmerend

Sep 30, 2015 5 min read Humanity Literature

The stream seems like something that could have only begun as a joke, but in fact, it didn’t. The webcam which streams a roundabout in the sleepy suburban town of Purmerend in

A Half-hearted Pilgrim

Sep 29, 2015 6 min read Literature

I watched the movie first. Then I went online, wanting to know more about this woman who changed her last name into a verb; who walked 1100 miles from southern California to the

The Apocalypse of <i>Seveneves</i>

Aug 24, 2015 7 min read Humanity Literature

At a Douglas Adams book talk I attended near the end of the last century, someone asked the author what advice he had for writers. Adams’s first bit of advice was this: