I first read this in grad school when I had the flu and had a high fever. It really is as great and weird as I thought then.  If you haven’t read Don Quixote, you’re not too late. It’s a bit of slog, but never difficult, especially in this particular edition with the 2003 translation. I haven’t looked at the Tobias Smollett translation from 1755, but I imagine that one’s a little rough these days. The introduction tells us that when the novel was first […]