ese oscuro objeto del deseo

Javier Moreno's Spanish translation of 'That Obscure Object of Desire' has just gone up on Hermano Cerdo . What a wonderful stor...

How to Print an Internet Magazine An Evening with Triple Canopy and Project Projects McNally Jackson Book s, 52 Prince Street, New York,...

There has been no lock on the front door of the house for the past few months.   I went to Kaiser's for milk and came back to find a new...

The Rooster

Lightning Rods is in the running for the Rooster, a prize offered by the Morning News for its Tournament of Books .  The books go through a ...

Two other aspects of sensed betrayal should be mentioned. First, those who suggest the possibility of another's entering a mental hospit...

David Hume was born three hundred years ago, in 1711. The world has changed radically since his time, and yet many of his ideas and admoni...

we are what we habitually do

Like the prophets of old, today's addicts may remind us that our desire for God is trivial and weak, and our horizons of hope and expect...

accidental history

What do you think about hair dye? Hm. When I got to Berlin I would go to this or that Frisür with the idea of having some highlights, and t...

A few years ago, a colleague in another university published a huge book, based on a vast amount of archival research, meticulously docume...

How Keynes would explain Iowa

John Maynard Keynes famously likened playing the stock market to judging a beauty contest where, rather than choosing the most beautiful g...

tomato tomato?

For most of the twentieth century, Arabs, Arab nationalists, and their Western devotees tended to substitute Arab for Middle Eastern histo...

Relay Foods

An e-mail arrived in the mail at some recent point announcing that Relay Foods has attracted a big injection of venture capital, owing in p...