February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a... →
December 2010
2 posts
My hero! →
November 2010
5 posts
Watch
Radical feminist Sheila Jeffreys talks to Julie... →
sheeeeeeeeeeet.
July 2010
3 posts
To the Lighthouse →
Parts of this are very good.
June 2010
1 post
Why I Write →
This is far from perfect; it doesn’t stab at the heart; but there is some thing there, in its essence, that speaks.
May 2010
2 posts
The Mongoliad →
Is this the revolution we (I?)’ve been waiting for?
April 2010
1 post
Dying Languages, Found in New York - NYTimes.com →
*untranscribable noise of longing*
March 2010
3 posts
Trevor's review of Radical Hope: Education and... →
Fascinating review and discussion about the problems that face indigenous Australia.
January 2010
13 posts
“Art isn’t only what we do, it’s what we are.”
– Margaret Atwood
“Well, the very first sentence is illuminating. “La bêtise n’est pas...”
– E.M. Forster, from E.M. Forster, Middle Manager - The New York Review of Books
This is my kind of literary criticism. Forster, I love you.
Nicholas D. Kristof's Columns →
What a guy
Trevor's review of Prisons We Choose to Live... →
Alice Munro Deep-Holes →
Rape is 'Normal' →
“La chair, hélas, est triste, et j’ai lu tous les livres.”
– Stéphane Mallarmé
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
December 2009
11 posts
“What broke in a man when he coul bring himself to kill another?”
– Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
Black People Love Us! →
The Brick Testament →
Vandana Shiva →
When I grow up…
NUUU →
“The raznochinets has only to list the books he’s read and his biography is...”
– Mandelstam, The Noise of Time 