it & badiou

We can say simply that global capitalism is not a vision of the future. It’s only a sort of continuity of itself. Capitalism is only a repet...

practical ethics & triangulation of desire

There's a profile of Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and more recently of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Pove...

(fail better)

why no novelist should EVER be asked to go on a book tour PROMOTING what ONCE looked like a brilliant idea

Me and Samuel

I've been reading reviews of Beckett's letters; a common theme is the amusement at what, to the reviewer, looks like Beckett's o...

Me, Samuel

The reader who wrote earlier of teaching her daughter to read Greek has had a look at the Russian translation of The Last Samurai. She send...

habituation

John Lanchester's recent piece in the New Yorker, Outsmarted , included an account of Richard A. Posner's new book, A Failure of Cap...

Our Man in Port Moresby

Ilya Gridneff, who is now working as Papua New Guinea correspondent for the Australian Associated Press, has started a blog, Papua News Guin...

John Lanchester

I don't think I have the right temperament for a blogger. My assumption, always, is that everyone knows everything I know AND MORE. Re...

SB

Mark Sarvas, on the Elegant Variation, links to John Banville's piece in The New Republic on Beckett's Letters. Banville's revi...

the cheetah's counsel

Managed to get a copy online of A F L Beeston's Samples of Arabic Prose in its Historical Development (A Manual for English-speaking Stu...

Crelle-kiez

The neighbourhood committee of my street, Crellestraße, have organised a day of music today with the cooperation of various local businesses...