I just re-read LeCarre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (having first read it in, I guess, the fall of 1964), and am impressed by how well it has held up....
Hey everyone, I've been paying attention lately about the way criticism is given in many different situations on all kinds of topics. In my life, even lately,...
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6987 By: Sara Robinson Thursday August 6, 2009 7:29 am All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives...
http://thehatefulnerd.livejournal.com/5771.html THE MISUSE OF POWER: Aesthetic Considerations in Mind Control thehatefulnerd November 24th, 1:17 Ok, I was...
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/real-reason-newspapers-are-losing-money-and-why-bailing-out-failing-newspapers-would-create- The Real Reason Newspapers Are...
Anybody read anything good lately? I haven't been in a mood to read much the last few weeks but I recently finished a Sam Peckinpah biography called "If They...
Updated on the Sentinel Nigeria blog On Northern Nigerian Writing and Related Issues "Writing goes beyond stringing words together, even if this is done...
My top ten novels – taking into account personal experience surrounding them as well as an attempted objective evaluation - are as follows. Only one work...
Given recent questions, I hunted for this. I found the article a while back for someone who were themselves confused about what the bible did, and *did not*...
http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=12108 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton [2008] mp3's I really appreciated hearing about gollywogs etc., in the...
http://tracker.umunu.com/torrents-details.php?id=1497 Horizon - Arthur C Clarke - Live in the Future.mpg Description: Predictive Programmer- Arthur C Clarke -...
Can anyone tell me where to find a Shakespeare quote that probably inspired the title of the 1940 film 'We Who are Young"? I think it may be from Henry 4th or...
http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/11/best-womens-erotica-2010-tune-in-turn-on.html Best Women's Erotica 2010: tune in, turn on November 16, 2009 ...
Ed-- I confess to a prejudice for the literature and culture of the 19th century and so was startled to hear Raskolnikov referred to as a “psychopath.” I...
A Ghazal of Longing for the East Flower {for `Nuju} A Cosmos split and made me an orb of light, its Divine made you A red eastern rose. Time has set an...
I never really "got" Kafka much to my own frustration. http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2009/09/22/smarten-up-with-surrealism/ By Rebecca Knight This just in...
Ok, a person who has a popular podcast that discusses certain types of issues that I am interested in wants me to be the "villian wrestler" for his show. He's...
Hello everyone, Please find the link to mine and JosANA's pictures from last weeks Association of Nigerian Authors 29th International Convention held at Minna...
Dear Readers, have You wondered what Aristotle writes in PARVA NATURALIA, also concerning dreams and predictions in dreams? And why Hellenist Philo of...