Biweekly Edition: 2-26

Nonbookish Linkage

• You just can’t tell the truth about America anymore

• Grain’s impact on World War I

• There’s no “we” in baptism

• The etymology of “god”

• How to summon a demon

• Tbilisi’s underground city

• The jackalope, which keeps watch over local bars, tourist traps, junk shops, greasy spoon diners and dimly lit pool halls

Bookish Linkage

• Even though opposed by most Americans, there’s a new banned books panic

• Lessons from the history textbook wars of the 1920s

• Stalin’s marginalia

• How much medieval literature survives?

Even if you have to die tomorrow, die as a literate.

M.F. Moonzajer, Love, Hatred and Madness