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July 15: New York: A Conversation with Cohen, Esfandiari, Sadjadpour Tonight1 comment

seamorg wrote 2 days ago: PEN American Center, The New York Review of Books, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and 9 … more →

Tags: Events Outside Iran, 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Haleh Esfandiari, July 15 Iran Update, Karim Sadjadpour, New York, PENAmerican Center, Roger Cohen

Why Darwinism?

Sarah Couto wrote 2 months ago: When I was a student I was enjoined to reject the “Cleopatra’s Nose” theory of his … more →

Tags: Darwin, Darwinism, Idolatry, Science, Richard C. Lewontin

Bound by Torture

Zeno Amerikanos wrote 4 months ago: “I need a drink and a shower.” – Mayor Quimby There is a stunning fact in Mark Dan … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Bush the Younger, Guantanamo Bay, I Love America, Institutionalized Stupidity, Obama Administration, Print is Dead, Sophomoric Imperialism, The Art of the Possible

John Updike

feinberglibrary wrote 4 months ago: Today in 1932 the acclaimed American writer John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His c … more →

Tags: In our collections, American writer, John Updike, Poet, Rabbit series, Short Stories, The Carpentered Hen, The New Yorker, tossing and turning

Daniel Mendelsohn Review

Kyle wrote 4 months ago: Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books: “The large success of the book…has mu … more →

Tags: Reviews, The Kindly Ones, jonathan littell, Daniel Mendelsohn

Ancient texts in new worlds2 comments

jannekeadema1979 wrote 4 months ago: I am now the proud owner of number 167 of the hand-bound limited second edition of Anthony Grafton’s … more →

Tags: eBooks, Lectures and Conferences, Reading, Anthony Grafton, Athenaeum, Books, Codex in Crisis, Google, Historisch Cafe

Will Future Nazis Burn iPhones or Kindles?1 comment

Zeno Amerikanos wrote 5 months ago: “Stupid books.” – Bart Simpson There was a fascinating article up at Ars Technica … more →

Tags: Amazon, Apple, Google, iPhone, kindle, Print is Dead, the information superhighway, greatest things since sliced bread, Gutenberg would shit if he ever saw Wikipedia

John Updike Wrote About The Average American In His Novels!

ebonytamu wrote 5 months ago: John Updike is the author whose book inspired one of the wackiest movies I’ve ever seen, … more →

Tags: People Who Do Us Proud, America, art critic, art criticism, Children's Books, Couples, Ethiopian, John Hoyer Updike, literary critic, Literary criticism

A Succinct Explication1 comment

petebyrne wrote 5 months ago: There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of many of those complicit in the current economic … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, Rant, Bill Clinton, The Great Depression, economic debacle, political running dogs, market dynamics, jeff madick

Report From the Northeast Corridor

herrdramaturg wrote 7 months ago: This past night but one we had snow for the first time this year. Relatively unaffected by the ice- … more →

Tags: Correspondence, A Seat On The Aisle, Pudenda Studies, harvard, The Wealth of Nations, Socialism, Taklamakan desert, Adam, Leibniz

Aftermath: A Very Deep Hole

Zeno Amerikanos wrote 7 months ago: “No no, dig up stupid.” – Chief Wiggum It’s been a little over a month since … more →

Tags: The Art of the Possible, systems analyst, Print is Dead, 2008 Election, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan is very dead, HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I didn’t use the word “brand” once, this will work better split up than as a 4000 word post

The lessons of the master

asianwindow wrote 8 months ago: In the New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma on Patrick French’s “The World Is What It Is … more →

Tags: Books, vs naipaul, Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V., Ian Buruma

What's at stake in the US presidential election?1 comment

jonathantodd wrote 8 months ago: The New York Review of Books has an absolutely wonderful feature on what is at stake in the US presi … more →

Tags: American Politics, videos, Afghanistan, Andrew Delbanco, Barack Obama, Darryl Pinckney, George W. Bush, iraq, John McCain

The (Un-)wisdom of Bill McKibben1 comment

omnologos wrote 8 months ago: If the Gods of Olympus subscribed to the New York Review of Books, they would surely be laughing har … more →

Tags: AGW, ipcc, Humor, Policy, Culture, climate change, Global Warming, attribution, Bill McKibben

Endorsey Brothers7 comments

DSL. wrote 8 months ago: As the Gray Lady, aka , finally takes her Who-knew?, Aiken-comes-out editorial bow on behalf of the … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Nation, Scott Lahti, media, Barack Obama, conservatism, Magazines, Liberalism

China: Humiliation & the Olympics

ruben2008 wrote 11 months ago: On a snowy winter day in 1991, Lu Gang, a slightly built Chinese scholar who had recently received … more →

Tags: East Asia, China, Olympics, Ruben Avxhiu, Fareed Zakaria

The Battle For A Country’s Soul

chrisy58 wrote 11 months ago: Published on Sunday, July 27, 2008 by The New York Review of Books The Battle For A Country’s Soul … more →

Tags: Political Issues, jane mayer, The Battle For A Country's Soul

Perceptions of Strength

jebsharp wrote 11 months ago: Read Samantha Power on “The Democrats and National Security” in  The New York Review of … more →

Tags: Politics, Samantha Power

Pssst, We’re Still Not Bombing Iran. Pass It On.

Zeno Amerikanos wrote 1 year ago: “Which, if true, means death for us all.” – Kent Brockman The “Bomb Iran … more →

Tags: Sophomoric Imperialism, Print is Dead, Iran, The New Yorker, Go Barack Go!, Hersh does good work, posted late for a particular reason, I really hope I’m not wrong about this, what happens after 4 November is anyone’s guess


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