{"id":14680,"date":"2011-04-15T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=14680"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:18:10","slug":"staff-picks-cycling-skiing-and-an-island-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/staff-picks-cycling-skiing-and-an-island-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Cycling, Skiing, and an Island of Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14722\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cycling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cycling1.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cycling1-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/>Jeanne Mackenzie\u2019s anthology <em>Cycling<\/em> is a collection of lighthearted, cycle-related selections from various literary figures, including James Boswell, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse, to name but a few. The book is beautifully printed\u2014who could resist its cover?\u2014and the selections delightful, and it&#8217;s endearing to see so many writers brought to rapture by so similar and elegant a sensation. As George Bernard Shaw fittingly concludes: \u201cYes, bicycling\u2019s a capital thing for a literary man.\u201d \u2014<strong>Stephen Hiltner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Swansburg, <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/a-week-in-culture-john-swansburg-editor\/\">this week\u2019s culture diarist<\/a>, pointed me in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2241785\/\">an interview<\/a> that <em>Slate\u2019<\/em>s Michael Agger conducted with James Salter last year about <em>Solo Faces<\/em> and <em>Downhill Racer<\/em>. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ted Hughes\u2019s\u00a0translation of Jean Racine&#8217;s <em>Ph\u00e8dre<\/em> absolutely crackles. It&#8217;s a poem about envious royals and epic feuds, but to me it was at its best when Hughes captured the private dilemmas of these very public figures. When Ph\u00e8dre denies her throne, insisting that she cannot rule a country if she cannot rule herself, it is an incredible moment that pits person against state and soul against country: \u201cMe? Rule? Me take control\/Of a state flying to pieces\/When I cannot control myself?\u201d\u2014<strong>Rosalind Parry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been reading Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sacred-Trash-Geniza-Jewish-Encounters\/dp\/0805242589\">Sacred Trash<\/a><\/em>, a book about the Cairo geniza\u2014that small storehouse where, for centuries, local Jews deposited their shopping lists, letters, wills, and personal libraries. 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