lists

Edmond Caldwell on Contra James Wood has a piece on The Millions' new Top 20 list for the new millennium. I think EC has slightly misse...

the internet and everyone

Freitakt #5 ::: i + e _ v e r n i s s a g e ::: john chris jones on Friday, October 2 at 8:00pm. Event: Freitakt #5 ::: i + e _ v e r n i...

John Chris Jones

TARARTRAT is organizing an installation centering on John Chris Jones' the internet and everyone, which will kick off on, I think, Octo...

over there

Owen Hatherley will be talking about his new book, Militant Modernism , on Thursday the 24th, 6.30pm, at 1 Bloomsbury Street, London. The e...

words fail

Nothing remarkably incisive to say about all of this beyond the capsule rendition of how it works. It is an engine of professionalization, t...

send in the robots

...there is now a first generation of cheery looking robots intended to interact with autistic children, and save on the inevitable burn-out...

risk is what keeps us alive

Terrific interview of Peter Carey about his new novel, Parrot and Olivier, at Granta .

correction

A reader writes in response to my thoughts on the admissions criteria set out on the website for the Oriental Institute at Oxford (which, a...

this sounds great!

Characters wander around aimlessly, do things for no reason, vanish, reappear, get arrested for unnamed crimes, and make wild, life-altering...

hm

I was having a look at the admissions criteria for undergraduate degrees at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. Each year Britain goes throug...

yes!!!!!

Anatol Stefanowitsch is back !

express lanes

You have here a simple question that anyone can access. Doesn't matter that you've never run a linear regression in your life. If yo...

Camfed

Just got this newsletter from Camfed. Can a book change lives? We believe this one can. Drawing on years of rich and ...

isn't science amazing

"The feedback we are getting says what inspires young people is the chance to do hands-on experiments and tackle real-world problems. H...

Did you know?

You can read an interview of Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame) by Joey Comeau on A Softer World .

hm

Things are still a bit tricky. I write posts and put them in the drafts folder. I told someone the other day that I would try to write a r...

secondhand sales revisited

Nathan Bransford , an agent at Curtis Brown, urges his readers to buy new books because authors don't get money on secondhand sales. We-...

CYOA

Things are a bit tricky at the moment. Andrew Hussie's guest post on Dinosaur Comics captures the mood.