BOOKISH

Jonathan Derbyshire reviews the new study by biologist Edward O. Wilson, The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion.

Englishman in New York recommends a new literary blog called Television is Furniture. I like the site's motto, borrowed from Ray Bradbury: "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, you just get people to stop reading them."

Jessica Crispin, alias Bookslut, delves into 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, and realizes that she has quite a bit of ground to make up. Don't we all?

I’ve read 96. (To be fair, that’s 96 that I’ve read from beginning to end, and doesn’t count books I gave up on or only read enough of to sound authentic in my college papers.) I e-mailed the book’s editor, Peter Boxall, to see if my score was so dismal that I should just give up now and take up knitting.