Camus wins Nobel prize

Le président du comité émet son avis : on attendait du nouveau dans la manière d'Hemingway, et "c'est arrivé avec Le Vieil Homm...

The Beast

The last post was No. 666. Dan Visel has just written to say that our interview is now online on Future of the Book . FOTB has a spectacula...

assessment exercise

The 2008 university Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE ), whose results have been announced with a mixture of fear, loathing and exhaustion...

whitelist

1. Roz Tritton. Best Dentist in the World. 2. Julien Kwan. Best Apple Service Provider in the World. 3. Ed Park. Best Editor in the World. 4...

rerererealism

Great extended quotation from Jonathan Culler on Edmond Caldwell's Contra James Wood, here . Culler's comments are also pertinent to...

always the last to know

I have a feeling everyone else already knows about CapitalOne. No one else would have been stupid enough to sign up for a credit card with ...

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In a café with a Hotspot that supposedly closes at 5. It's 3am. Someone is going around putting chairs upside down on tables. How this h...

For one thing, it worked

Owen Hatherley of Nastybrutalistandshort on Shirley Porter, Tesco heiress, gerrymanderer, Kissinger manquee, here . Realising that Labour...

tulips, art, bubbles

Modern Missives on tulips and art and markets, here . In the winter of 1636-37, ownership of tulips bulbs sometimes changed hands up to 10 t...

Arabic dictionary

A reader contacted me recently in connection with the mooted list of Top 1000 Words in Literary and Philosophical Arabic. Those who have tac...

over there

Came across a fabulous blog, Humor Vagabundo, written by Luis Moreno Villamediana, a Venezuelan poet; here's part of his description of ...

man is the measure

Came across a post on Infinite Thought on, or rather quoting from and referring to Massimo de Angelis' and David Harvie's paper on ...

the trouble with informants

My friend Ingrid is in Berlin. We were going to go to Badeschiff, a swimming pool-cum-sauna floating in the Spree, but she had to see her do...

Books of the Year

Garth Hallberg of The Millions invited me to write about best books I'd read this year. He has just posted the result, here .

definite descriptions and such

I was having another look at Gerhard Antretter's Deutsch zu Zweit, and decided to see what he had to say about articles. The index gave...

new game new game new game

Language Hat quotes Remy de Gourmont in a post on The Writer's Capital Crime : Conformism, imitativeness, submission to rules and to tea...

Lexique Pro

I sent an e-mail to Languagehat asking advice on elicitation for a book I was writing. LH passed the e-mail on to Claire Bowern of Yale, who...