Babel

Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR

Library of Babel as visualized by Erik Desmazieres.

(Each of the following sentences comes from the texts of the Review.
Hover over one to see its title or click to read the whole text.)

But every time I pass through there, I feel something in me unwind, something in me is consoled. The income of the Jockey Club is so large it is really embarrassing. Were they aware of the esthetic impact of their acts? Was their aim ever to launch an artistic movement or carry out a kind of long-term performance? So many questions that we will never be able to answer. There was no escaping those mornings; light that invades, exposes. In “Teamwork,” a little boy’s grandmother “babysits” him by leaving him locked in a room and ignores his cries.