Murukami also reminds one of Kafka or Lynch in that he leaves many of his mysteries open and unexplained. Some will find this frustrating.
It did surprise me how much I did not know about the Spanish Civil War. It’s as if all trace of it is scrubbed from historical summaries of the leadup to WWII
Moving out after a breakup delayed me from posting on time about this biographical history of a famous literary breakup!
A lively trip around the world to compare how different cultures bring out their dead.
Destroy everything about this except it’s ears. It’s ears it keeps, and I’ll tell you why…
We have fooled ourselves into perceiving our technology as neutral, detached from our own biased and irrational ways.
This week I read two novels by Hubert Selby Jr. I’d never read him before. Selby buried me.
On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget.
This is the biggest benefit of “Amusing Ourselves to Death:” its introduction into the world of deconstructing cultural mythology. What we take for granted, and oftentimes fail to see.
Here’s a book that takes cultural essay writing to a whole other level.
A day late and a dollar short with two stories of the rake’s progress.
In Avi Woolf’s Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World post, Brother Rufus wrote an insightful and incisive comment:
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin Williamson’s “The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics”
I suppose by middle age it’s high time I started with Balzac…
“The book was better” is not something I say very often, but it is no less true: books are a different medium and what works on the page my not work on the screen and vice versa.
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
Too Much Faith Following the Wrong Leader
October 13, 2019
Goodbye Stranger, It’s Time to Ramble On, Nice to Know You….
October 13, 2019
October 13, 2019
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Outer Worlds Final Stretch
October 12, 2019
Saturday Spins: The Grateful Dead
October 12, 2019
Grand & Glorious: Christopher Columbus
October 12, 2019
Atlanta Sports Fans: Why us, oh Lord?
October 11, 2019
Yom Kippur: The Cycle Starts Up Again
October 11, 2019
October 11, 2019
Trump Greenlights Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria
October 7, 2019
Nancy Pelosi Makes “Official Impeachment Inquiry” Announcement
September 24, 2019
October 10, 2019
On Greta Thunberg and Public Discourse around ASD
September 28, 2019
The Impeachment Meltdown Begins
October 1, 2019
Cuomo, Rudy, and Ukraine, Oh My
September 20, 2019
The GM Strike is Going to Take a While
September 18, 2019
Clown Show: Corey Lewandowski Amuses Himself at Jerry Nadler’s Circus
September 18, 2019
If I had to guess... are the richest parts of the state experiencing blackouts or just the, ahem, middle class parts?
It doesn't matter, I suppose.
on RosebudThe 1% Doctrine. Which is ... pure bullshit.
on RosebudBUT MAYBE HE MIGHT HAVE! Straw man. I'm talking ab…
on RosebudIf by "we" you mean Germany, you are largely corre… on Rosebud...and inspectors continued to assert that Iraq ha… on Rosebud:)
on RosebudHe did have chemical weapons, lots of them, which… on RosebudOh, I'm terrifically mad at Bush. We'd be a better… on Rosebud"Saddam didn't have nukes, BUT MAYBE HE MIGHT HAVE…
The Grand Odyssey That Is One Piece
Leave The Amazon Be
Maybe Forgiveness After All
Speaking of Terror
No, Google Did Not Steal The Election
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