October 09, 2009

Books

Conceits & Ribaldries Included

The Book of WilliamHow Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the WorldPaul CollinsBloomsbury USA, $25, 288 pp.

Celia Wren

Twitter is altering the way we live (or so a Time magazine cover story has informed us). Google is digitizing entire libraries. A blogger for the Web-only Huffington Post attended a White House news conference in June and generated more hoopla than all the mainstream journalists put together. The online word is ascending so rapidly that ink-on-paper text seems on the verge of o (...)


 

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