Pharyngula (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Looking for some images from a classic trial? The Smithsonian has recently put a set of photos from the 1925 Scopes trial on Flickr. Read the comments on this post...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Centre of Indian Languages at JNU’s School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies in the Capital organised a memorial meeting this past week for prominent Hindi writer Prabha Khaitan, who passed away in Kolkata recently. Dr. ...
nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Woman strangling male beast to death C'mon girls [and guys], let's see how well you know your heroines. The task is to identify which of these famous people: Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Kissinger [oh how I'm missin' yer] ...was behind which quote: 1. Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. 2....
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: John Huston, by Axel Madsen Axel Madsen (who died last year) is one of those writers I envy. I would love that kind of career. He wrote in-depth biographies of John Jacob Astor,...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
By Mann, Bonnie Recently, philosophers have taken to announcing a revival or a renaissance in the study of the philosophical work of Simone de Beauvoir.1 Sonia Kruks argues that feminist Beauvoir studies, having passed through an early ( 1970s) phase in which women related to Beauvoir as an icon, and through a middle (1980s) phase in which feminist thinkers related to Beauvoir as an adversary, has...
Maitresse (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Flaubert's Sentimental Education (1869) recounts how a young man from the provinces, Frédéric Moreau, "goes up" to Paris with dreams of becoming a real writer. Monter à Paris: it's quite the cliché today, but for centuries, as David Burke shows...
The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
I’m just back from a mythical place in Paris: La Coupole. Located at Boulevard du Montparnasse, this brasserie was created in 1927 and remained one of the hottest places to be seen at until the 60’s. People like Josephine Baker, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and a large number of other artists and celebrities of [...]
This is London (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Since joining the EU in 2004, Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, has emerged as a new focus for art and photography, particularly for Antanas Sutkus.
Hyscience (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Harvey Mansfield, professor of government at Harvard and a member of the Hoover Institution's Taskforce on Virtue and Liberty, has what Bill Kristol refers to as a short, brilliant piece on Sarah Palin, Simone de Beauvoir, and feminism, at Forbes.com . Here are the first two paragraphs: Was feminism necessary to produce Sarah Palin's fine performance at the Republican Convention? She is of course...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Harvey Mansfield has a short, brilliant piece on Sarah Palin, Simone de Beauvoir, and feminism, at Forbes.com . Here are the first two paragraphs: Was feminism necessary to produce Sarah Palin's fine performance at the Republican Convention? She is of course no heroine to radical feminists, who disliked everything she said, but could one rightly say--could they say--that she is indebted to their brand...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Biancamaria Fontana reviews some new books on Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant, in The Times (UK): Like most authors, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were naturally preoccupied with the possible impact of their work on posterity; yet neither...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
US Liberals, now called Progressives, are back in fashion
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
A delegate on the Democrats' mood at their convention
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Jackie Wullschlager in the FT reviews new books on Sartre and de Beauvoir, Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant, de Maintenon and Louis XIV, and the model wives of Cezanne, Monet & Rodin: Twenty-one years ago, I reviewed on these...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Some women are remembered with respect and love and others with fear… There is a story behind each of the women who have caused the world to stir at the mention of their names:
