• In this MP3 clip, Michel Elias gives his oral rendition of a text from Gargantua XXVII.

    February 10, 2003

  • Paréiasaure Editions (don't miss Didier Gambert's introduction to Le Compère Mathieu ou Les Bigarrures de l’esprit humain, or the brief note alerting us to an obscure parergon of the French literary renaissance). More.

    April 9, 2002

  • Here is an unusual fellow who asks himself, "How is it that I, a mere café employee, came to write these Gospels?" This is pretentious drivel I can't make myself read, but its existence intrigues me nonetheless.

    April 6, 2002

  • Big Fun purports to memorialize a "remarkable youth culture as it actually functioned in the mid-90s."

    discovered long ago and God knows how