All Popkulturist reading coverage, newest first. Books and the wider comics shelf, sometimes new and sometimes pulled off a stack forty years deep. The medium rewards a different relationship to time than streaming does, and the writing here tries to match that. Reading, not reading lists.
Ten typed pages turned up in the Bodleian this week, and because they're Tolkien's, the word "lost" did its usual work, and somewhere a fantasy fan started picturing a new map. What the pages actually hold is a translation of a sermon.
In 2000, one year before Peter Jackson's 'Fellowship of the Ring' arrived in cinemas, I read 'The Lord of the Rings' for the first time. It was slow. It was not boring. Those are two different things, and figuring out the difference took me about six weeks.
