April 2013
1 post
March 2013
3 posts
What Mary can’t expect when she is expecting. By... →
February 2013
12 posts
Creating Hipsturbia: “Hastings-on-Hudson is a... →
Zeus's relationships according to many authors... →
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J. C. R. Licklider: Libraries of the Future (1965)... →
A Rose for Emily
by William Faulkner
From http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html
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WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least...
The birth of Rock Against Racism. By Karl Smith in... →
Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil... →
January 2013
4 posts
Someone’s Knocking at My Door. By László... →
December 2012
14 posts
Tight-knit communities a factor in many shootings,... →
Inequality is Killing Capitalism. By Robert... →
The Cloak. By Nikolai Gogol →
Newtown and the Madness of Guns. By Adam Gopnik in... →
László Krasznahorkai to Colm Tóibín: “I was... →
Don DeLillo: Hammer and Sickle (from Harper's) →
Don DeLillo: Midnight in Dostoevsky (from The New... →
Losing Time or Doing Time: Drowning Public... →
Don DeLillo: Baader-Meinhof (from The New Yorker) →
Greece and the Future of Europe. By Costas... →
November 2012
10 posts
Nassim Taleb: My rules for life. The author of The... →
Movements Need Politicians—and Vice Versa Frances.... →
THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets (documentary; dur 1:02:34)
Andrew Ross: The Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual... →
How Obama Won: Showing the Electoral Shifts... →
Richard Falk: Istanbul, a Modest Proposal: Could... →
The Year of the MOOC. By Laura Pappano in The New... →
512 Paths to the White House (from The New York... →
October 2012
17 posts
Jamie Dolinko’s The Lagoon (Vancouver, B.C.)
Laureate of Terror: Don DeLillo’s prophetic soul.... →
66% - Young Women Now Top Young Men in Valuing... →
Don DeLillo: Cosmopolis →
Rebel Cities. By Kanishk Tharoor at Guernica →