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...