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Writers' Lives1 comment

harvey70plus wrote 1 week ago: Old-pro novelists harbour a crusty collegiality borne of the awareness of the attrition involved in … more →

Tags: Writers & Writing, James Wolcott, William Styron

Did Britain's MI6 have Patrice Lumumba murdered?11 comments

Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: Guest Post by Harry Stopes Africa is a Country readers may not regularly check the London Review of … more →

Tags: Featured, History 2, Politics, Colonialism, Daphne Park, DRC, Howard Smith, kinshasa, Leopoldville

Writing: The Tools Change, the Neurosis Endures3 comments

Samir Chopra wrote 3 weeks ago: Philip Hensher has written a book–The Missing Ink–on handwriting. In it, according to Je … more →

Tags: technology, Writing #2, fountain pens, Handwriting, Jeremy Harding, Philip Hensher, The Missing Ink, Word Processors

Might Same-Sex Relations Be Evolutionarily Advantageous?

Samir Chopra wrote 4 weeks ago: A prominent fallacious argument used against same-sex marriage is the good ‘ol ‘we … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Books, Oscar Wilde, Same Sex Marriage, naturalistic fallacy, lesbians, PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY, Virginia Woolf

The wrap: poetry in the news (w/e 25 apr 2013)1 comment

bronwynlea wrote 4 weeks ago: In Los Angeles, a Harvard poet wondered ”Is this too loud, is this too soft, am I going on too … more →

Tags: News & Events, Amanda Palmer, Anne Carson, death, Farhan Akhtar, James Franco, James Joyce, Lord Byron, Poetry

(stillness)

J C W wrote 4 weeks ago: after Anne Carson prior to following stillness movement … more →

Tags: Anne Carson, Spatialized, movement, Prior To, Following, stillness, Geometry

(produces)

J C W wrote 4 weeks ago: after Anne Carson small stillness small stirring produces great stillness great stirring … more →

Tags: Anne Carson, Small, Spatialized, Great!, stirring, Produces, By Chance the Cycladic People, Geometry

Capitalism Trumps the Bible

Hope-filled Musings wrote 1 month ago: The April 5th edition of the London Review of Books has an interesting article by John Lanchester on … more →

Tags: Christian precepts, The Church as Capitalized, Trusting God, Serving Mammon, united states, Karl Marx, God, Marx, John Lanchester

Eagleton on Sex and Sexuality: Fun, and Not-So-Much (Respectively)

Samir Chopra wrote 1 month ago: In yesterday’s post, I offered a couple of critical remarks in response to Stanley Fish‘ … more →

Tags: Politics, Books, Writing #2, Sexuality, sex, Terry Eagleton, Academic Writing, Hal Gladfelder, John Cleland

Like a Boeing1 comment

tig23 wrote 1 month ago: Broken bones and body Along with a soul All much too old For the vessel That holds them. F-22 Stream … more →

Tags: Poems, Creativity, Poem, writing, Poetry, Caring, NaPoWriMo, Napowrimo 2013, personal ad

The Organs of Social Being

Patrick Ryan wrote 1 month ago: If you have read my other posts over at “The Spectacle,” you may have noticed my use of … more →

Tags: New Criterion, Russell Kirk, THE CONSERVATIVE MIND, Claremont Review of Books, Eagle publishing, Regnery Publishing

After Leveson - Stephen Sedley1 comment

INFORRM wrote 1 month ago: The Privy Council, which will now be responsible for issuing a royal charter setting up a panel to v … more →

Tags: Leveson Inquiry, Stephen Sedley

MI6 'arranged Cold War killing' of Congo prime minister

Admin wrote 1 month ago: Claims over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Revie … more →

Tags: News, Video, London, kinshasa, Lumumba, UK, Patrice Lumumba, English, belgian congo

‘British intelligence killed Congo leader Lumumba’

Our Correspondent wrote 1 month ago: This picture shows the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo.—Photo by Reuters NEW DELHI: The Bri … more →

Tags: Latest News, Newspaper > Back Page, World top stories, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, hindu, kinshasa, Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba

Gender trends and Structo

Euan wrote 1 month ago: Photo (CC BY-NC-ND): Etienne on Flickr Structo’s poetry editor Matthew Landrum ponders the the … more →

Tags: Poetry, Short Stories, Vida, Gender, Tin House, The New Yorker, Harper's

Noam Chomsky> Violence and Dignity – Reflections on the Middle East1 comment

wammtoday wrote 1 month ago: Professor Noam Chomsky, delivering the 2013 Edward W Said Lecture: Violence and Dignity – Reflection … more →

Tags: Military Madness, Human Rights, middle east, Palestine, Gaza, Israel, Noam Chomsky, global justice, Christian Zionism

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Aseged Tamene wrote 2 months ago: ብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ ማትያስ ለኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋኅዶ ቤተክርስትያን ስድስተኛው ፓትርያርክ ሆነው በቅርቡ መመረጣቸው ይታወቃል። ​​ ሊቀ-ጳጳስ አባ ማትያስ … more →

Tags: Political opinion, Africa, History, New York Times Book Review, April Fools Day, rupaul, Korean Demilitarized Zone

Michael Faraday & public science in the London Review of Books

Sick City Project wrote 2 months ago: A portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Wellcome Library, London Charles Darwin may have displace … more →

Tags: London, History, Michael Faraday, royal institution, History of Science

Confidence52 comments

myothervoices wrote 2 months ago: Two Weeks Before I’m going to enter that short story competition even if I’ve never writ … more →

Tags: humans, Short Story, flash fiction, writing, Fiction, Literature, Creative Writing, Short Stories, Publishing


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