PETRONA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Dave Lull, here is an extract from a post by Roy Peter Clark on his experiences of having his newspaper's copyediting outsourced to India: " I need copy editors to know that Eva Longoria is not the wife of...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... The Mind and Its Now . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) There can be no active mind without its sensing its existence in the moment called now . The realization of this is the driving force of modern philosophy from Descartes' cogito on. Without suspecting that the cogito , a personal reflective act, cannot be a starting point of knowledge, he took it for such. He failed to realize that it is...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... A Google map for your library . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Amis & Amis . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The creation of Creationism . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Creationism is much more specific and much less plausible. Its central claim is that the precise mode of creation has been revealed in the Bible, and follows the pattern set out in the first chapter of Genesis ... thus identifying God’s action with a particular series of events and a particular timetable, rather than as the ultimate...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... On this date in 1888 Raymond Chandler was born. Listen to him chat with, yes, Ian Fleming: His Master's Voice . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
... Hammershoi: the Poetry of Silence . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I saw a show of Hammershøi's work a few years ago, though I can't remember where - the Walters maybe? If I could paint, I would probably specialize in still lifes and interiors.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
... The Wood Workshop: How Critic Became A One-Man School . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The problem with a practicing novelist writing about how fiction works is that it tends - naturally enough - to be about how the fiction that writer likes to write and read works. I haven't read Wood's book - though I have no doubt it is worth reading - but I am preemptively skeptical of any prescriptive...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
... Portrait of a lady . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
... WILL THE LAST BOOK REVIEW EDITOR TURN OUT THE LIGHTS? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) That's really too bad. Carole was very good. What kind of a contract do they have at the Courant?
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
... Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... from Superior: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... Good Scholarship Is Worth Honoring . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Too bad so many faculty members of the University of Chicago don't agree (but don't question their belief in academic freedom!).
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... Review of Peter Stanlis's Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
