desperately seeking ideal speech situation

Sorry for not following anyone. I'm still trying to lear how to use this tool. JH Yes, that JH is Jürgen Habermas . From the indispens...

Avanti

2010. Time to move over to Wordpress. Yes. But before we go, here's Cosma Shalizi on the Neyman-Pearson lemma and William James: When la...

open paprika

A bad year ends. A worse is coming. One funny thing. When I wrote The Seventh Samurai, to give it its correct title, I imagined that a man...

Writing & That Clinking Clanking Sound

Great piece by Michael Greenberg on the Electric Literature blog .

electric literature

Scott Lindenbaum (my partner at EL) and I worked on The Brooklyn Review, a literary magazine published out of the MFA program at Brooklyn Co...

rogue hypnotists foiled

Back when I was working for the Indiana General Assembly, one member (and not the member who was, no lie, a radio psychic) became convinced ...

Joe Sacco

Rachel Cooke interviews Joe Sacco in Guardian Review .