I love to feel on the very edge of literary news; love knowing about good books fresh off the presses and tracking my favourite authors’ most recent publications. It’s also an important part of writing a good book club blog. But looking back matters too. A reader’s life follows two tracks. One is linear and driven by time, which marches in one direction. The other hops and skips back and forth through history—which is written time—and follows no chronology at all. That’s a readers’ book list. I can sit down one day and read Greek drama— say, Aeschylus’ Oresteia—and then, … Continue reading EINSTEIN’S DREAMS