Anyone caught arguing for common sense, moderation or even a slightly less fantastic dogma is vilified and is subjected to one of those famous internet pile-ons.Īll of this has led me to believe one of the old jokes from the right, the one that states that the preferred battle formation of the far left is the circular firing squad.Īnd it’s always been that way. Since history tends to argue hard against the more extreme forms of socialism, these tend togo down some spectacular theoretic rabbit holes. The arguments between left and right are always fun, but those between left and left are usually the best of all. I watch in amusement and horror as lunatics on the left and right register their unworkable, extremist views for all to see. My main exposure to politics in those times when Argentina is not close to a national election (one month every couple of years where you can’t listen to the radio in the car without being bombarded) is on social media. You can buy it here.Īs someone who already has way too many hobbies, I avoid politics like the plague. Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer whose literary collection of linked short stories is entitled Love and Death. Probably the most effective piece of advertising I’ve ever been exposed to. You get a look at the creative process behind the art, a guided tour given by editors and just a general sense of the loving way the books are put together.
Food, mythological beasts and murder mysteries are all illustrated in the pages of this publication, because they are also illustrated in the books the magazine is trying to sell. It’s like standing in the lobby of the Chrysler Building.īut that’s not the only article. Politics aside, Folio’s artwork is a wink and a nod to the era in which it was published, and takes us back to the glories of the Art Deco age. The central topic is the Folio edition of Atlas Shrugged, which, love it or loathe it, is undoubtedly a hugely important book that seems even more relevant to political discourse today than when it was first published. The images of Folio artwork in this edition (Autumn 2018), are wonderful.
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It’s a bit of an advertising piece disguised as a self-indulgent series of interviews of creators, behind-the-scenes look at how the final products are made and paeans to the finished product. This magazine is about what you’d expect from the house organ of a company dedicated to creating beautiful publications (and one which I’ve featured before). My personal favorite is the annual Folio Diary, but another wonderful little gift is Folio, the company’s magazine. Although it’s not named here, the text for Troilus and Cressida appears in the First Folio after Henry VIII and before Coriolanus.One of the nice things abut buying books from Folio Society is that they send you little gifts with the books.
That’s because the publishers obtained the rights to Troilus and Cressida very late in the process-too late to include it on this page, which was already printed by then. You may notice there are only 35 plays listed, even though there are 36 plays in the First Folio. The Tempest leads off the comedies, even though Shakespeare wrote it late in his career, while Coriolanus heads the tragedies. They also made sure to place a “new” play (one that wasn’t already available in print in a quarto) at the start of both the comedies and the tragedies. Most of the history plays that were previously printed were already named for kings, but not all of them. They named the history plays according to the kings who reigned during the events in the plays and put the plays in the order of the kings’ reigns. Heminge and Condell grouped Shakespeare’s plays in the First Folio into three categories for the first time: the comedies, the histories, and the tragedies.
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