Book ads
When I subscribed to the NYRB, many years ago, one of the main pleasures was discovering books in the ads that were not published on this side of the Atlantic. Soon, I realised it wasn't really a literary paper at all and gave up my sub. Now, with Amazon, there is no need to gaze longingly over the pond.
But still, adverts attract. In the TLS this week, Routledge display Derek Attridge's Singularity of Literature. The title alone drew my attention. The blurb says "Attridge provides a powerful new framework for discussion of literature and the practices of Western art." Well, interesting, I suppose.
On the following page, the University of Chicago Press offer James Fitzgerald's translation of book 11 and 12 of The Mahabharata, "the second longest poem in world literature". So, I'm thinking, what's the longest poem in world literature?
Anything by Ian McMillan perhaps.
