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"Against Camel Case," my attack on the intrusion of capital letters into the middles of words, is published in the 29 November 2009 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Herewith an online bibliographical supplement.
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No doubt you have wondered what the mysterious blogger behind Steamboats Are Ruining Everything sees when he looks up from his laptop. The answer (at least when I work at the kitchen table): a lot of sky, and a few backyards in southern Park Slope,...
Close reading of Henry VI Part 1 is hereby indefinitely suspended on account of canine events beyond my control. We'll see if Toby is able to digest the play any more speedily than I could.
The campaign in France is faltering. Who will lead England after the death of Henry V? That's the problem to be faced in Henry VI Part 1. I suspect that the answer won't come until the end of Part 3, but the question is posed in the very first scene of...
Henry VI Part 1 may be Shakespeare's first play, but it opens, dizzyingly enough, with the death of one of his great heroes, Henry V. "England ne'er had a king until his time," one of the dead king's brothers laments in the opening scene (1.1.8). It's...
