Link-O-Rama
Heading into the holiday weekend I will admit I don’t have much to say. So instead I offer the following links for your enjoyment: — I recently stum...
Year: 2004
Bush and Books
Allow me to get something off my chest and then pose a question. I wasn’t really planning on reading this Cristina Nehring “Books Make You a Boring ...
Call Off the Search by Kate Melua
This site is mostly about books, but I thought I would break things up a little bit and offer you something different. Below is a music review I posted over at ...
Edward Said, humanism, and anti-conservative conservatism
Interesting Mathew Price review of Edward Said’s posthumous work Humanism and Democratic Criticism in in the most recent Bookforum. Price discusses Said&#...
The Novel: where have we been, where are we going?
Jonathan Leaf has some interesting Notes on the Novel over at the New Partisan. Leaf charts the emergence of major novelists by decade and then offers thoughts ...
The Use, and Misuse, of language.
Notes from around the web: – Aaron Haspel casts a cynical eye toward the blog revolution and its impact on the English language: Languages evolve, for goo...