The distinguished black academic Henry Louis Gates found himself “boyed” by a cop in his own home, recently, as many of us now know. An interesting (and distressingly typical) response, o… more →
VINTAGE AUGUSTINESteven Augustine wrote 4 months ago: The distinguished black academic Henry Louis Gates found himself “boyed” by a cop in hi … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 8 months ago: Ron Silliman is bashing Andrew Motion again. Although, think: it’s funny how little essentia … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 10 months ago: or: adventures in the compulsively mediated, PC prison of totalitarian decorum http://www.guardian. … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 11 months ago: The person who write the website http://staugustinian.wordpress.com/ shoud stop writing. It’ … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 1 year ago: Let’s preserve this comment over at Open Letters Monthly … http://openlettersmonthly.com … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 1 year ago: A sickening strain of unearned smugness runs rampant on the Litblogs. This we know and accept. Still … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 1 year ago: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe Reviewed by James Whoode If chattel slavery can b … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 1 year ago: James Wood, noted literary and film critic, has, apparently, written an email critical of comments I … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 2 years ago: On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 166 pp Ian McEwan is the gothic poet of British class anx … more →
Steven Augustine wrote 2 years ago: The Sea John Banville, 264 pp Picador Everyman Philip Roth, 182 pp Jonathan Cape Philip Roth’s Every … more →