It’s clear that Goliath never got a fair shake in the telling, whether in the Old Testament or in the many subsequent versions. But now, after a mere couple of millennia, he has, thanks to Scottish cartoonist Tom Gauld. Better late than never.
When you sit down to talk books with Daniel Allen Cox, you’re never quite sure what’s going to happen, all you can be sure of is that it’s going to be interesting.
On first cracking open Julija Šukys’s second book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė, readers probably expect the straight biography of the Lithuanian librarian who helped save countless Jews from the Vilna Ghetto. But that’s not what they’ll get.
