any fan of Dr Seuss...

Kevin Drum wonders why Clinton and Obama supporters get so worked up at each other. Any fan of Dr. Seuss will know that policy similarity h...

They're off...

The Rooster Tournament of Books has officially begun, with Tobias Seamon judging the first match.

China Babel

YouKu 优酷 is a good example of what may be called "Sino-English," which I predict will become increasingly evident in the years to ...

Existentialism for beginners

A literary agent in San Francisco has written a post on why it takes so long to get a novel published, at the end of which he says: You have...

Someone is WRONG

Mithridates on Fredric Jameson on pornography, The Godfather, Jaws, how much time have you got? (And this is just Part I)

trying to cut down

when I referred to Socrates I meant, of course, St Paul...

The Morning News has sent me a chart of the play-offs for the Rooster. As it turns out, Remainder is up against On Chesil Beach, not The Sa...