Genocide and Coca-Cola
John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington — held a news conference at the...
May 31st
Lynn Geesaman, Damme, Belgium (2004)
May 31st
Donald Justice, "The Wall"
The wall surrounding them they never saw; The angels, often. Angels were as common As birds or...
May 31st
“My dear friend, you may write as carelessly and badly as...”
— Voltaire, to a young writer...
— Voltaire, to a young writer...
May 30th
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Forro in the Dark
May 29th
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Copyright law, especially the “fair use” provision, illustrated solely through clips...
May 29th
“God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I’ve heard...”
— Tom DeLay
— Tom DeLay
May 28th
“Money talks, but it doesn’t write all that well, and it can...”
— Michael Wood on Spider-Man 3,...
— Michael Wood on Spider-Man 3,...
May 28th
Darwinian comedy
The best performance in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” comes from a monkey. He belongs...
May 28th
Andrew Davies, improver of Austen
Davies said he aims to make his new version of Sense and Sensibility force viewers to forget Ang...
May 28th
“Al Gore possesses a skill that no other American politician...”
— Alan Ehrenhalt in the...
— Alan Ehrenhalt in the...
May 27th
Gustav Klimt, Apple Tree (1912)
May 26th
Features
It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features...
May 25th
The eighth Station of the Cross, “Jesus Meets the...
May 24th
May 23rd
stills from `The Adventures of Prince Achmed,” a 1926...
May 23rd
“I’m so sorry to disturb you, sir, but it appears to be...”
— one of many greetings from the...
— one of many greetings from the...
May 22nd
Ezra Pound, "The River-Merchant's Wife:...
[an adaptation of a poem by Li Po] While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I...
May 21st
“This explores the idea of distilling a whole film...
May 20th
Run in the gerbil cage and the giant effigy will pick its...
May 19th
from the NYT
May 19th
from Petrus Apianus, Cosmographia (1524); via Bibliodyssey
May 18th
Professor Sees Parallels Between Things,...
AUSTIN, TX—University of Texas professor Thom Windham once again furthered the cause of human...
May 17th
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The cuckoo clock reminded me of this. Shining: A Romantic Comedy.
May 17th
An idea for a cuckoo clock based on The Shining: every hour...
May 17th
Rowan Williams on prayer as...
The true disciple is an expectant person, always taking it for granted that there is something about...
May 16th
back to the jungle
Some American religious conservatives have embraced ties with this emerging Christianity, including...
May 16th
Colin Burrow on the unfashionable
There is an awkward period in the lives of clothes, furniture and writers, when they become...
May 15th
It's necessary to read this story
May 14th
Frank DiTuri, Full of Bliss, Italy, 1996
May 14th
Sir Astley Cooper and Napoleon's horses
After the Battle of Waterloo, all the wounded horses of [the Emperor Naploleon’s] Household...
May 13th
Anthony Grafton on Stoppard's Coast of...
And yet, and yet: in theater the audience’s judgment leaves little room for appeal. To watch...
May 12th
Abelardo Morrell, Four Old Books (1995)
May 11th
Zizek and the Weather Channel
Zizek says the only time he feels truly relaxed and free is when he misses a connection and has to...
May 10th
“Once I happened to find two first editions, very cheap, of...”
— Theodore Dalrymple
— Theodore Dalrymple
May 10th
a view of Gaudi’s cathedral in Barcelona by Wesley...
May 9th
Denis Darzacq, from a series of photos called La Chute
May 9th
on Clive James and café society
By a lucky chance, I started reading Cultural Amnesia on my way down to the annual convention of the...
May 8th
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from Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974)
May 7th
bad books
Most of us are familiar with people who make a fetish out of quality: They read only good books,...
May 6th
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Tom Waits, “Lie to Me”
May 5th
avoiding human conversation
A few years back, when my son was in college, he had to mail a letter. I don’t remember the specific...
May 5th
me too
iTunes has so much content these days that I’d probably be willing to ditch cable and go entirely to...
May 4th
Francis Jammes, "A Prayer to Go to...
When I must come to you, O my God, I pray It be some dusty-roaded holiday, And even as in my...
May 3rd
This is Jon Katz’s donkey Carol. She was Carol the...
May 3rd
A chart W. H. Auden made up for his 1943 class at Swarthmore...
May 2nd
May 1st
the Maypole
But the chiefest jewel they bring from thence is their May-pole, which they bring home with great...
May 1st