October 12, 2006
Nobel – Politics and Art
Interesting choice made by the Nobel Committee. Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author, is unusually well known and widely translated for an author outside the usual western orbit. And, as so […]
October 12, 2006
Short Takes
Scientists and science journalists need to get their acts together, writes Michael Bugeja. The scientists need to learn how to talk to nonscientists without exaggerating their findings, and the journalists […]
October 11, 2006
Censorship Is Censorship Is Censorship.
“Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books “” – U.S. Supreme Court in Board of Education, […]
October 11, 2006
Short Takes
A cache of unpublished letters from the novelist Virginia Woolf and scores of first editions inscribed by leading writers and poets of the early 20th century has emerged in the […]
October 10, 2006
Authors and the Web–Why Copyright Still Matters
Funny thing happened yesterday. A poet whose work we’d published in the current issue of KR sent an email enquiring whether we’d agreed to have her poem appear on Verse […]
October 10, 2006
Short Takes
The annals of the unprintable. How the new dictonary words are decided (hint: “podcast” will make it; “acheiropoietoi” and “blat” won’t). You may as well be trying to ban the […]
October 9, 2006
Short Takes
The Brits respond to the American “Best Novels” list. The self-loathing Jew is a particular anathema to Mamet, and he battles the apostasy of those who for whatever reason have […]
October 7, 2006
Short Takes – Lazy Saturday Edition
It’s time to make Britons feel as valued at home as they do abroad, says Andrew Motion. Stephen Mitchelmore on British literary journalism: short and sweet. The word on Writely […]
October 6, 2006
Short Takes
Dems make higher education a campaign issue (subscription required). The highlight: Representative Pelosi, who is likely to become speaker of the House if the Democrats prevail in November, criticized Republicans […]
October 5, 2006
Short Takes
Out: buying novels. In: buying your way into novels. Even if you wanted to quit your day job, it’s pretty unlikely. What’s the point of a college education, anyhow? Partying, […]
October 4, 2006
Short Takes
Tracking Jack Kerouac using Google Maps? Sweet. One more reason why the Quills don’t matter. How not to start a book club. It’s Buy a Friend a Book Week, which […]
October 3, 2006
The Bee
While I was in graduate school, lots of people around me suddenly got very interested in writing about real bees, the kind they were studying over in Cornell’s Ag School, […]