The Princess Bride Re-Make: Make it More Than Mostly Dead
Destroy everything about this except it’s ears. It’s ears it keeps, and I’ll tell you why…
Category: Books
The Deification of Technology
We have fooled ourselves into perceiving our technology as neutral, detached from our own biased and irrational ways.
Sunday Morning! Two by Hubert Selby Jr.
This week I read two novels by Hubert Selby Jr. I’d never read him before. Selby buried me.
Sunday Morning! “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa
On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget.
Distraction is the Larger Picture
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.
Sunday Morning! “White Girls” by Hilton Als
Here’s a book that takes cultural essay writing to a whole other level.
Monday Afternoon?!! Balzac’s Old Goriot & Midnight Cowboy
A day late and a dollar short with two stories of the rake’s progress.
Comment Rescue: The Underclass
In Avi Woolf’s Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World post, Brother Rufus wrote an insightful and incisive comment:
Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World
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”
Sunday Morning! Beginning Balzac & Eugénie Grandet
I suppose by middle age it’s high time I started with Balzac…
Actually, the Film Was Better Than These Books
“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.
Sunday Morning! On Reading (and reading and reading) Thomas Wolfe
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
Ordinary Bookclub: HPMOR Wrap-up
Okay. Time to close the cover on another Ordinary Bookclub. We read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Our kickoff post is here. The last of the 10(!) different recap threads is here....
The Heroic Knight in the Wife of Bath’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale shows how desperate readers are for a hero and what we are willing to forgive or ignore to get one
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 100-113)
The biggest cliffhanger yet.
