Why you should read genre books

I'm usually reading four or five books at a time. At the moment, I'm in the middle of Husain Haddawy's enchanting translation of “The Arabian Nights” (forget Cervantes and Sterne — this is where postmodernism begins); Jean-Luc Marion's anti-ontotheological “God without Being”; Guy Davenport's essays; a few books of poems I switch among; and Daniel O'Malley's “The Rook.”

Essay By Michael Robbins

October 26, 2012