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...