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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Wishes Her Every Success
GalleyCat notes that John Freeman has been appointed Acting Editor of Granta following Alex Clark’s departure.
Posted in Writing
Tagged alex clark, editing, galleycat, granta, john freeman, publishing, uk
Barbarity and Grace
The New York Times has David Orr’s review of Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959-2009.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, david orr, frederick seidel, new york times, poetry, usa
Boorish Heedlessness
In the Times Oliver Kamm asserts that liberal over-sensitivity to the beliefs of others is undermining freedom of speech.
But respect for ideas is never an entitlement. It depends on their intellectual resilience in public debate. No free society can treat people’s deepest beliefs as sacrosanct. They are fair game for hostile and derisive criticism. That is how knowledge advances.
Posted in Reading
Tagged oliver kamm, politics, times, uk
The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adair
Recommended.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged gilbert adair, melville house publishing, novella, recommended, uk
Celebrating Racism
In the Washington Post, Marie Arana reviews Chesa Boudin’s Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America.
Eventually, Boudin admits, the American left is the real destination of his journey. “I came to see Latin America,” he writes, “as a prism through which I could better understand my own roots in the radical left in the United States, and the role my country plays in a global society.”
So, there we have it. Though we await desperately needed insights into the promise that has always been Latin America, we get the shaky road map of a callow young man.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, chesa boudin, marie arana, politics, usa, washington post
Happy to Lose
Elizabeth Taylor Ruth Padel, the descendant of Charles Darwin who was recently elected the first female professor of poetry at Oxford, resigns her post amid allegations that she engaged in a smear campaign targeting her closest rival.
Posted in Writing
Tagged charles darwin, charlotte higgins, derek walcott, guardian, oxford, poetry, ruth padel, uk