One day I hope to have read every book I want to have read – but there’s so many books I want to read. And there seems to be so many barriers preventing me from reading them, each one propped up by the last, I despair for my intellectual future, and cringe in shame at…

Part one is here. When I decided to do something about my historical ignorance (it’s all in the past now) I had a huge whopping, monumental, problem: where should I start? After a small amount of research I decided to I had to read J.M Robert’s New History of The World, considered the best one…

Tracy Zhang, at The Cornell Sun is fed up. Fed up with the never ending tidal wave of low celebrity culture rolling out of Hollywood. In fact, she’s so fed up she’s taken to extreme measures: I realized upon my fourth viewing of “Dick in a Box” that maybe it was time to look into…

Find out how to make your own invisible book shelf.

Stephen Burn, author of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A reader’s guide, reviews Infinite Jest for The Times Literary Supplement, placing it in the context of millenarianism: …in the United States, perhaps because the country’s origins are so intimately linked to Western hopes for the millennium, the texture of the novel in particular was significantly…