Siri Hustvedt, in this year’s issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (No. 49), has written an excellent piece on reading and, most importantly, remembering literature. From her observation that “[v]arious texts call for different [reading] strategies” (122), to the fact that we as readers often unconsciously imagine things in literary works that [...]

After a long break, it appears that I’m back to blogging again. Yeah for me; The End of Civilisation for you all.

Yeah, yeah, I know I have been a bit absent for the last couple of days. Stop bugging me with your annoying curiosity! I’ve actually been keeping myself pretty busy with all kinds of things. It’s the end of the first period of the first semester (no, really, that’s how I should refer to it [...]