Archive - The Big Book Project

“A Total Chilling of Your Life and of Your Relations to Humans…Already Lies In Your Nature.”

(Doctor Faustus, Post #8, Chapters XXIV-XXVIII)

Jun 18 • The Big Book Project

“The Hourglass Has Been Turned…The Sand Has Begun To Run.”

(Doctor Faustus, Post #7, Chapters XXIV-XXVIII)

Jun 16 • The Big Book Project

A Favorite Big Book

The Rouse by China Miéville

Jun 15 • The Big Book Project

Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, with Nick During (NYRB)

A Conversation on The Big Book Project

Jun 12 • The Big Book Project

“Your System Looks To Me As If It’s More Apt to Resolve Human Reason Into Magic.”

(Doctor Faustus, Post #6, Chapters XVIII-XXII)

Jun 11 • The Big Book Project

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, with Chad Post | Big Book Project

Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

Jun 10 • The Big Book Project

“The War Is Lost, And That Means More Than a Lost Campaign, It Means That We In Fact Are Lost—Lost, Our Cause and Soul, Our Faith and Our…

(Doctor Faustus, Post #5, Chapters XVIII-XXII)

Jun 9 • The Big Book Project

“If One Was Unable—And Unwilling—To Imagine Him In Any Sort of ‘Amorous’ Situation, that Was the Result of the Purity, Chastity…

(Doctor Faustus, Post #4, Chapters IX-XVII)

Jun 4 • The Big Book Project

“It is His Adversary, Having Himself Come To Grief Out of Pride, Who Strives to Make Us Forget…a Roaring Lion Who Walketh About Seeking Whom…

(Doctor Faustus, Post #3, Chapters IX-XVII)

Jun 2 • The Big Book Project

May 2026

“A Sign of Inordinate Arrogance…Something Disquieting…Very Apt to Arouse Concern About the Health of His Soul.”

(Doctor Faustus, Post #2, Chapters I-VIII)

May 28 • The Big Book Project

“Culture is Actually the Reverent, Orderly, I May Even Say, Propitiatory Inclusion of the Nocturnal and Monstrous.”

(Doctor Faustus, Post #1, Chapters I-VIII)

May 26 • The Big Book Project

“You Got Everything You Asked For Kristian. But There’s Always a Price.”

(Post #14: The School of Night, Part Three-Four, pp. 430-End)

May 21 • The Big Book Project