more than 95 theses
2009
December
66
November
35
October
39
September
50
August
103
July
142
June
64
May
91
April
75
March
104
February
85
January
84
2008
December
90
November
64
October
32
September
52
August
79
July
38
June
53
May
56
April
74
March
58
February
83
January
63
2007
December
56
November
63
October
81
September
86
August
1
July
63
June
82
May
48
April
53
March
73
February
January
May 1st
the Maypole
But the chiefest jewel they bring from thence is their May-pole, which they bring home with great...
May 1st
the Fear
The unclean blood no longer clung to our hands, but the small gods still clung to our hearts. They...
Apr 30th
Apr 29th
Namibia; photos by Clive Crook [narrated slideshow here]
Apr 29th
Christopher Smart, from JUBILATE AGNO...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving...
Apr 29th
a warning to bibliokleptomaniacs
Steal not this book for fear of shame, For in it is the owner’s name; And if this book you...
Apr 28th
Lynn Geesaman, Beloeil, Belgium (2004)
Apr 28th
Dada poster (via Typophile)
Apr 27th
Abelardo Morell, Water and Ink
Apr 26th
Tom Wright on the Atonement
It is with the Servant, and the theology of the whole of Isaiah 40-55, that we find the...
Apr 25th
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, "Song"
Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree. All night it hung there and sang....
Apr 25th
William Blake, "Mock on mock on Voltaire...
Mock on mock on Voltaire Rousseau Mock on mock on ‘tis all in vain You throw the sand against the...
Apr 25th
Aging
If our genes explain less than we imagined, the wear-and-tear model may explain more than we knew....
Apr 24th
orphaned baby gorilla, Cameroon [photo: Evan Ratliff]
Apr 23rd
Michelangelo: To Giovanni Da Pistoia...
I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or...
Apr 23rd
Starlings, near Rome [from the NYT]
Apr 22nd
Those are the camels’ shadows, not the camels. (Photo...
Apr 22nd
“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
— W. H. Auden
Apr 22nd
Apr 21st
THIS AMERICAN LIFE Completes...
CHICAGO—Producers of the long-running Chicago Public Radio program This American Life announced...
Apr 20th
Liviu Librescu
Prof. Liviu Librescu faced many trials in his 76 years, growing up and living in Romania. There were...
Apr 19th
China Marks, “At Home with the Queen of Hearts”...
Apr 18th
Woody Guthrie (1950)
My flying saucer where can you be Since that sad night that you sailed away from me? My flying...
Apr 18th
“Betjeman was not always sure that Christ was the Son of God,...”
— Richard Jenkyns on John...
Apr 17th
Lee Siegel on Joan Acocella
Not long ago, in the course of reviewing Martin Amis’s novel House of Meetings, most of which...
Apr 17th
“In academia, a polite way to say that we found our...”
— Slavoj Zizek
Apr 17th
living in houses
Even in countries such as France, Germany, and Russia, where many people still live in apartments,...
Apr 16th
Luxemburg (from the NYT)
Apr 15th
a prayer of Samuel Johnson's
O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, Father of all mercies, I thine unworthy servant do...
Apr 15th
more from Walford
Apr 14th
from John Walford’s Flickr pages
Apr 14th
missionary secularism
CAEN, France — With 40 minutes to go before show time, the 500-seat Alexis de Tocqueville...
Apr 13th
One of many pictures of books by Cara Barer (is that name...
Apr 12th
G. K. Chesterton and friend
Apr 11th
“I’m not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish.”
— Jonathan Miller
Apr 10th
John Lanchester on books
There are people who foresee a disaster for publishers and writers. Personally, I think that books...
Apr 10th
Hodge. 17 Gough Square, London. (“He is a very fine...
Apr 9th
from Pope Benedict's homily for the...
This is the joy of the Easter Vigil: we are free. In the resurrection of Jesus, love has been shown...
Apr 8th
An Iraqi man carries books that survived looting of the Iraq...
Apr 7th
La Paz, Bolivia, Good Friday 2007 (courtesy BBC)
Apr 7th
Holy Saturday
At the end of a Good Friday service, we get to the point where nothing we do will be or...
Apr 7th
detail from the Isenheim Altarpiece
Apr 6th
from "Friday's Child," by W. H. Auden
Now, did He really break the seal And rise again? We dare not say; But conscious unbelievers feel...
Apr 6th
a poster, from an article on Iranian calligraphy (thanks to...
Apr 5th
Paula Scher’s diagram of the life cycle of a blog post...
Apr 5th
“N Korean communists ate my giant rabbits”
— surely the headline of the...
Apr 5th
a New Zealand pasture (from Smithsonian magazine’s...
Apr 5th
“All the poems I have written were written for love.”
— W. H. Auden
Apr 4th
Museum Plagiarius is now open
Apr 4th
“The intellectuals didn’t perform very well in the 20th...”
— Clive James
Apr 3rd
the librarian's curse
He who breaks [this book] or puts it in water or rubs it until you cannot recognize it [and] cannot...
Apr 3rd
on the import of Bible stories
By then, in the countryside near my parents’ home, I had also undergone solitary apprehensions...
Apr 2nd
Donald Coxeter, geometer
Apr 1st
Richard Wilbur, "A Christmas Hymn" (for...
And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road. As he was drawing near—already on the...
Apr 1st