Brief mention: words and things

Daniel Mendelsohn in the New Yorker of April 16th, in “Unsinkable” (p. 66): The aura of significance that attends the Titanic’s fate was the subject of another, belated headline, which appeared in a special publication of the satirical newspaper the Onion, in 1999, stomping across the page in dire block letters: A figure in which … Continue reading Brief mention: words and things