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a review damning Gurnah with faint prose - he wasn't convinced by the abrupt switch in the narrative, thinking that the novelist shouldn't desert the reader once engaged... I liked the ride however.. he also picked up on that quote that deserves amplification: "Irony is the unforgiving register that gives everything back to us"

old review on Levinson, Cudahy and McPhee's various books on containers... the toli take on containers is long overdue

great hatchet job on Stephen Wolfram and his "A New Kind of Science". In lieu of superfluous comments, let us pass on to Gardner's list of the "five ways in which the sincere pseudo-scientist's paranoid tendencies are likely to be exhibited."

Though he coined the name "Pandemonium"—"all the demons"—for the palace that Satan and his fallen crew build in Hell, he also coined the word "self-esteem," as contemporary a concept as there is and one that governed much of Milton's lif

review of last night's concert. The Roots should never be an opening act, they should have been the main event especially with Erykah Badu in full eclectic mode ala Zap Mama. Good concert though.

The interest in the thriller is the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them. The interest in the study of a murderer is the observation, by the innocent many, of the sufferings of the guilty one. the dialectic of innocence

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Michael (Mike) Daconta's new book Information As Product.

Shaw was in fact a crank of the first water, who had the sophist's ability to present his publicity-generating eccentricities as the choices of a rational man. He was drawn to odd causes like a fly to ordure, provided they gave him a platform. One of th

It's a measure of the depth and skill of O'Connor's portrait that even as you want to wring his neck -- not to mention kick him out of the house -- you want to hug him. He's been a terrible father to his only son -- not to mention a terrible husband to th

James Ellroy expounds on Dashiell Hammett's day job. Dashiell Hammett was allegedly offered five Gs to perform a contract hit. It is most likely a mythic premise. He was a Pinkerton operative at the time. A stooge for Anaconda Copper made the offer.