Paul Klee

the book cover for The Greatest Invention, featuring some linguistic characters against an orange background

Silvia Ferrara’s The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts and the Power of Written Language

At times of injustice and tragedy caused by senseless human actions, it is helpful to recall the revolutionary power of writing from the broad perspective of the history of human existence.

THE NEUTRAL CORNER: Nicholas Fox Weber’s “The Bauhaus Group”
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THE NEUTRAL CORNER: Nicholas Fox Weber’s “The Bauhaus Group”

  The neutral corner is one of the two corners of the ring not used by boxers between rounds. It is also the corner a boxer must retreat to after he has floored his opponent. The Neutral Corner was also a bar in Saratoga Springs, New York, that I frequented when at Yaddo in the late…