Ziad Shihab

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Hole at the Bottom of the Book

February 24th, 2024

Only after we are certain that we have finished a piece of writing can we know precisely what we have failed to say. Among other things, this failure points us to where we must begin writing again.This idea emerges with progressive clarity from Annie Ernaux’s latest book, The Young Man, published in France in May 2022 and in September from Seven Stories Press in Alison Strayer’s translation, Ernaux’s first English-language release since she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In an epigraph of...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

May 19th, 2022

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

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Riverdale Espouses the Importance of Returning Library Books

May 10th, 2022

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 13 "Those dark secrets that we all carry in our hearts, I am those secrets…" Riverdale continues to be anything but dull. With the apocalypse looming, the series’ latest episode focused on…overdue library books. Yes friends, you read that correct. The next step in Percival Pickens’ plan to destroy the town and then the world involved pestering Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Cheryl and Reggie to return books th...

On Books and the Housing of Them

March 11th, 2022

On Books and the Housing of Them Clip source: On%20Books%20and%20the%20Housing%20of%20Them On Books and the Housing of Them by William Ewart GladstoneIn the old age of his intellect (which at this point seemed to taste a little of decrepitude), Strauss declared [1] that the doctrine of immortality has recently lost the assistance of a passable argument, inasmuch as it has been discovered that the stars are inhabited; for where, he asks, could room now be found for such a multi...

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Review: Green Book (2018)

November 19th, 2021

Green Book is a 2018 American biographical drama that brings to life the racism and poverty of America in the 1960s through a narrative of friendship and adventure. The film, though surprisingly successful in the box office, was even more so on the awards circuit. It won three Oscars in 2019 for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor, in addition to numerous award nominations. Interestingly, the film won the 2019 AARP Award for Best Movie for Grownups. However, it f...

Book wars. “What happens when the oldest of our media industries collides with the great technological revolution of our time?”

September 5th, 2021

IN 1995, I WENT to work as a writer and editor for Book World , the then-standalone book-review section of The Washington Post . I left a decade later, two years before Amazon released the Kindle ebook reader. By then, mainstream news outlets like the Post were on the ropes, battered by what sociologist John B. Thompson, in Book Wars , calls "the digital revolution" and its erosion of print subscriptions and advertising revenue. The idea that...