Monthly Archives: March 2007

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)

30 March 2007

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Recommended.

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The Dismal Failure of E-books

28 March 2007

A blog post by Charles Stross, author of Glasshouse, explains why the future of electronic books looks no brighter than the present.

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Scum

26 March 2007

The New York Times has an article on new books that deal with rampant corporate crime.

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Heavy Lifting

25 March 2007

In a Salon interview Jonathan Lethem, author of You Don’t Love Me Yet, wails against copyright law and celebrates appropriation.

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Shiny Shoe Buckles

24 March 2007

In his review for Slate of Ben Wilson’s The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837, Michael Chase-Levenson asks: Why are we still so obsessed with the Victorians?

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Seriously Uncool

23 March 2007

In the London Review of Books Jenny Diski covers the Susan Sontag collection At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, which was put together by Sontag’s son.

If the funny is hard to find in Sontag’s writing, her seriousness is never in doubt, and it is precisely the suspicion of that quality that seems to distinguish the present time.

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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

23 March 2007

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Highly recommended.

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Medicus

22 March 2007

Scott Simon of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition interviews Ruth Downie, author of Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire.

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