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[from amaah] My Beautiful London

Profiling the prescient Hanif Kureishi... Everyone is appropriately silent about the solipsist detour he took when his marriage broke down - Intimacy and Midnight All Day were the barren children of that era.

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[from amaah] Return to Paradise

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

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[from amaah] Up from the Cellar

pondering Josef Fritzl and his crimes by way of a review of Elfriede Jelinek's works. "The performance takes place in the very much smaller cellar dungeon in Amstetten – daily, nightly."

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[from amaah] The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict, By W.H. Auden

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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[from amaah] The cure for Bernard Shaw

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

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[from amaah] 'I Was Dancing': A Novel That's Still Light on Its Feet

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

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[from amaah] Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa

But there is another kind of desertion that haunts the novel: the British colonial experience. Indeed, Gurnah seems to suggest that Britain "deserted" its colonies, like the islands of Zanzibar, before the time was right.

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[from amaah] The poet of collision

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.

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[from amaah] Eating the Environment: A Literary Kitchen Cornucopia

The local-global conundrum, a thoroughly modern predicament, has found its way into a small shelf's worth of new food books. Two of them start with the same premise: that you can shorten the food chain by eating locally.

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[from amaah] If a Guy Acts Like a Goat, He Deserves the Sobriquet

old review of The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa... need to write the african equivalent... compare to the autumn of the patriarch

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[from amaah] Sharpeshooter

Porterhouse Blue transports you to a cockeyed world of crumbling colleges, crestfallen tutors, dottery Lords, salacious television hosts, and gas-filled floating condoms. You may not know or care one whit about the trials and tribulations of the English u

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[from amaah] Warsaw Underground

In the English language, both “existentialism” and “Warsaw” are generally prefixed by the term “bleak,” the way “burger” is followed by “fries.” This book reminds us how much bland fiction we publish in the English-speaking world. skew

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[from amaah] The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

There are moments, when her ability to look suffering squarely in the eye and describe it in all its horror can be enough to make you take a brisk walk before returning to the next sentence. Here is language that does justice to the suffering of gods.

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[from amaah] Willing Outcast

On Roberto Bolaño.. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality. It's an outstanding meditation on art, truth and the search for roots and the self, a kind of road novel set in 1970s Mexico a land of amnesia.

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[from amaah] Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith

Upon being honored with a papal decoration well into his old age, Belloc refused to put out the money needed to buy the medal and grumbled: “What would they say if I changed my mind?”

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DEC0604.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Lit review for podcasting. Presented at Educause

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[from amaah] Her Boy (On Mark Thatcher)

Equatorial Guinea had the bad luck to come to independence under Macias Nguema, whose rule was so terrible that a third of the population was either killed or fled. Though he had people garrotted, buried alive and beheaded (and their heads stuck on poles)

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