June 2011
The Islands Can Be Filmed
C Wright Mills commuting to Columbia College, Yaroslava Mills by Dan Hind The inexhaustible novelty of how we feel serves to protect the old order from what we think. C. Wright Mills begins his essay The Sociological Imagination by drawing a contrast between the ‘everyday worlds’ that ordinary people...
Read MoreIf some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…
Readers of the Pack: American Best-Selling | by Ruth Franklin,
Bookforum
In Making The List, his 2001 book about best sellers, former Simon & Schuster editor in chief Michael Korda recalls that the publishing house once commissioned a study of which...
Read MoreJudie Newman: Bellow & Trotsky
by Judie Newman The later Bellow’s reputation as a neoconservative has obscured the centrality of his early enthusiasm for Trotskyism to his life and writings. The 2010 publication of a selection of his letters opens with Saul Bellow aged 17 writing to Yetta Barshevsky, a fellow high school student...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read More
I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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