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Books RSS FeedsGeographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Tinne) - Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)...Feed Source: books.google.com The Island of the Innocent (Fisher) - The Island of the Innocent: A Novel of Greek and Jew in the Time of the Maccabees (New York: Abelard Press, c1952), by Vardis Fisher (page images at Google; US access only)... The Dialogues of Plato, Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions (Plato) - The Dialogues of Plato, Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions (third edition, 5 volumes; Oxford University Press, 1892), by Plato, ed. by Benjamin Jowett (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)... The Tramp at Home (Meriwether) - The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)... Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir (Bell) - Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1914), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)... Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia (Bell) - Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia (London: H.M. Stationery Off., 1920), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and Arnold Talbot Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)... Safar Nameh; Persian Pictures (Bell) - Safar Nameh; Persian Pictures: A Book of Travel (London: R. Bentley and son, 1894), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Tramp Trip (Meriwether) - A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day (fifth edition or later; New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1887), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Hyperlinked Society (Turow) - The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)... The Barber of Seville (Fawcett) - The Barber of Seville: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts (Boston: J. H. Eastburn's Press, 1856), by Mr. Fawcett, contrib. by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (page images at Google)... The Barber of Seville (Sterbini) - The Barber of Seville: A Comic Opera in Two Acts, As Performed by the Italian Opera Company at Castle Garden, New York, Sept 13, 1847 (New York: Herald Book and Job Office, 1847), by Cesare Sterbini, contrib. by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (page images at Google)... An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Robinson) - An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1903), by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... A Matter Of Scale (Farnish) - A Matter Of Scale, by Keith Farnish (HTML with commentary at amatterofscale.com)... Charles George Gordon (Barnes) - Charles George Gordon: A Sketch (London: Macmillan, 1885), by Reginald H. Barnes and Charles E. Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Doubtful Son (Dimond) - The Doubtful Son: or, Secrets of a Palace (based in part on Beaumarchais' "L'Autre Tartuffe"; London: Printed for W. H. Wyatt, 1810), by William Dimond, contrib. by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Follies of a Day (Holcroft) - The Follies of a Day: A Comedy in Three Acts (based on The Marriage of Figaro; London: J. Barker, 1811), by Thomas Holcroft and Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Friends of Voltaire (Hall) - The Friends of Voltaire (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1902), by Evelyn Beatrice Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)... New Materials for the History of the American Revolution (Durand) - New Materials for the History of the American Revolution (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1889), ed. by John Durand, contrib. by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (multiple formats at archive.org)... The "Ministry of Angels" Realized (Newton) - The "Ministry of Angels" Realized: A Letter to the Edwards Congregational Church, Boston (Boston: A.E. Newton; New York: Partridge and Brittan, 1853), by A. E. Newton and Sarah J. Newton (PDF files with commentary at cimmay.us)... Isizwe (United Democratic Front ) - Isizwe: Journal of the United Democratic Front, by United Democratic Front (South Africa) (partial serial archives)... Dawn (Umkhonto we Sizwe ) - Dawn: Monthly Journal of Umkhonto we Sizwe, by Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) (partial serial archives)... Frank Talk (Azanian People's Organization) - Frank Talk, by Azanian People's Organization, contrib. by Steve Biko (partial serial archives)... Belle (Whitaker) - Belle (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1898), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)... For the Fourth Time of Asking (Whitaker) - For the Fourth Time of Asking (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)... Pris (Whitaker) - Pris (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)... Our Little Ann (Whitaker) - Our Little Ann (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)... Miss Toosey's Mission (Whitaker) - Miss Toosey's Mission (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1885), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)... Tom's Boy (Whitaker) - Tom's Boy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1900), by Evelyn Whitaker, illust. by Percy Tarrant (page images at Google; US access only)... Radio-Active Substances (Curie) - Radio-Active Substances (second edition; London: Chemical News Office, 1904), by Marie Curie (page images at Google; US access only)... Old Times on the Upper Mississippi (Merrick) - Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)... How I Know God Answers Prayer (Goforth) - How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time, by Rosalind Goforth (Gutenberg text)... Laddie (Whitaker) - Laddie (ca. 1894), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Crockett) - A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore, Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Davy Crockett (multiple formats at archive.org)... Pen (Whitaker) - Pen (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)... Rob and Kit (Whitaker) - Rob and Kit (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1899), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (Roche) - The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)... Tip Cat (Whitaker) - Tip Cat (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)... Zoe (Whitaker) - Zoe (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Master Key System (Haanel) - The Master Key System (Saint Louis, MO: Inland Printery, 1919), by Charles F. Haanel (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... A Continuation of the Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, Who Were Ejected and Silenced After the Restoration in 1660, By or Before the Act for Uniformity (Calamy) - A Continuation of the Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, Who Were Ejected and Silenced After the Restoration in 1660, By or Before the Act for Uniformity (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. Ford et al., 1727), by Edmund Calamy (stable link)... Ecce Homo (Nietzsche's Autobiography) (Nietzsche) - Ecce Homo (Nietzsche's Autobiography) (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Anthony Mario Ludovici (page images at Google; US access only)... An Historical Account of My Own Life, With Some Reflections on the Times I Have Lived In (1671-1731) (Calamy) - An Historical Account of My Own Life, With Some Reflections on the Times I Have Lived In (1671-1731) (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by John Towill Rutt (stable link)... The Career of David Noble (Keyes) - The Career of David Noble (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1921), by Frances Parkinson Keyes (page images at Google; US access only)... The Nonconformist's Memorial (Calamy) - The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer (stable link)... The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian (Mommsen) - The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian (planned as the 8th book of Mommsen's History of Rome; 2 volumes; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887), by Theodor Mommsen, trans. by William P. Dickson (stable link)... Songs by the Sea (Springer) - Songs by the Sea (Chicago and New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1889), by Rebecca Ruter Springer (page images at Google; US access only)... History of Dissenters, From the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808 (Bogue) - History of Dissenters, From the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808 (4 volumes; London: Printed for the authors, 1808-1812), by David Bogue and James Bennett (stable link)... Public Parks (Olmsted) - Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)... The Wissahickon (Daly) - The Wissahickon (Philadelphia: The Garden Club of Philadelphia, 1922), ed. by T. A. Daly, illust. by Herbert Pullinger (page images at Villanova)... The Lives of the Puritans (Brook) - The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those Divines Who Distinguished Themselves in the Cause of Religious Liberty, From the Reformation Under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Black, 1813), by B. Brook (stable link)... The Wild Riders of the First Kentucky Cavalry (Tarrant) - The Wild Riders of the First Kentucky Cavalry, by E. Tarrant (multiple formats at archive.org)... American Hero-Myths (Brinton) - American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent (1882), by Daniel Garrison Brinton (Gutenberg text)... Ancient Nahuatl Poetry (Brinton) - Ancient Nahuatl Poetry (1890), by Daniel Garrison Brinton (Gutenberg text)... The Maya Chronicles (Brinton) - The Maya Chronicles, ed. by Daniel Garrison Brinton (Gutenberg text)... The Annals of the Cakchiquels (Brinton) - The Annals of the Cakchiquels: The Original Text, With a Translation, Notes, and Introduction (1885), ed. by Daniel Garrison Brinton, contrib. by Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz Gebuta Quej (Gutenberg text and page images)... A Mathematician's Apology (Hardy) - A Mathematician's Apology (1940), by G. H. Hardy (PDF in Canada; NO US ACCESS)... Pocket Guide to Australia (United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division) - Pocket Guide to Australia (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Five Russian Plays, With One From the Ukrainian (Roberts) - Five Russian Plays, With One From the Ukrainian (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, contrib. by N. N. Evreinov, Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, and Lesia Ukrainka (multiple formats at archive.org)... A History of English Prosody From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day (Saintsbury) - A History of English Prosody From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day (3 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1906-1910), by George Saintsbury (stable link)... Night Thoughts, With the Life of the Author (Young) - Night Thoughts, With the Life of the Author (London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798), by Edward Young (multiple formats at archive.org)... Universal Spiritualism (Colville) - Universal Spiritualism: Spirit Communion in All Ages Among All Nations (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1906), by W. J. Colville (multiple formats at archive.org)... William Blake, Mystic (Butterworth) - William Blake, Mystic: A Study, by Adeline M. Butterworth; Together With Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I and II (1911), by Adeline M. Butterworth and Edward Young, illust. by William Blake (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (Milton) - A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shewing That it is Not Lawfull for Any Power on Earth to Compell in Matters of Religion (1659), by John Milton (HTML at dartmouth.edu)... Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table (Erdnase) - Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (aka The Expert at the Card Table; originally published 1902), by S. W. Erdnase (PDF with commentary at erdnase.com)... Black and White (Shiner) - Black and White (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), by Lewis Shiner (PDF at lewisshiner.com)... Selected works (Shiner) - Selected works, by Lewis Shiner (HTML and PDF at lewisshiner.com)... The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) in the Original Meters, Together With Dante's Vita Nuova (Rossetti) - The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) in the Original Meters, Together With Dante's Vita Nuova (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1861), ed. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, contrib. by Dante Alighieri (HTML and page images with commentary at rossettiarchive.org)... The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Rossetti) - The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2 volumes; London: Ellis and Scrutton, 1886), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. by William Michael Rossetti (HTML and page images with commentary at rossettiarchive.org)... Ballads and Sonnets (Rossetti) - Ballads and Sonnets (London: Ellis and White, 1881), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (HTML and page images with commentary at rossettiarchive.org)... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Radford) - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London: George Newnes, 1905), by Ernest Radford (HTML with commentary at rossettiarchive.org)... Conversations of Goethe With Eckermann and Soret (Goethe) - Conversations of Goethe With Eckermann and Soret (new edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1875), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, ed. by John Oxenford, contrib. by Frédéric Jacob Soret (page images at Google; US access only)... The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare) - The Taming of the Shrew (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (searchable HTML at clicknotes.com)... Pipefuls (Morley) - Pipefuls (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Christopher Morley, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... Songs for a Little House (Morley) - Songs for a Little House (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1917), by Christopher Morley (Gutenberg text)... The Devil (O'Brien) - The Devil: A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience, by Joseph O'Brien, contrib. by Henry W. Savage, Ferenc Molnár, Marie Manning, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg text and illustrator)... The Martyrs of Science (Brewster) - The Martyrs of Science: or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (London: J. Murray, 1841), by David Brewster (Gutenberg text)... Conjuring for Amateurs (Stanyon) - Conjuring for Amateurs: A Practical Treatise on How to Perform Modern Tricks (1901), by Ellis Stanyon (multiple formats at archive.org)... Elective Affinities (Goethe) - Elective Affinities: A Novel, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (multiple formats at archive.org)... Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs (Freeman) - Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs (New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1875), by James M. Freeman (multiple formats at archive.org)... Magical Suggestions (Latour) - Magical Suggestions (London: G. Johnson, 1921), by Harry Latour (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth (Kellar) - A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)... Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (Robert-Houdin) - Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)... New Era Card Tricks (Roterberg) - New Era Card Tricks (London: W. and F. Hamley, c1897), by August Roterberg, illust. by L. R. Gossett (multiple formats at archive.org)... Sealed Mysteries (Hull) - Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (c1911), by Burling Hull (multiple formats at archive.org)... Sleights (Hull) - Sleights: Being a Number of Incidental Effects, Tricks, Sleights, Moves and Passes, For Purposes Ranging From Impromptu to Platform Performances (c1914), by Burling Hull (multiple formats at archive.org)... Some Modern Conjuring (Holmes) - Some Modern Conjuring: A Series of Original Experiments in the Magic Art (ca. 1909), by Donald Holmes (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Work of the Open Court Publishing Co. (Open Court Publishing Company) - The Work of the Open Court Publishing Co.: An Illustrated Catalogue of its Publications Covering a Period of Twenty-One Years (1887-1907), by Open Court Publishing Company (multiple formats at archive.org)... Jerusalem (Blake) - Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion (London: William Blake, 1821), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... The Ghost of Abel (Blake) - The Ghost of Abel (London: William Blake, 1822), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... The Book of Ahania (Blake) - The Book of Ahania (Lambeth: William Blake, 1795), by William Blake (stable link)... America (Blake) - America: A Prophecy (5 copies printed by Blake, 1793-1821), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... All Religions are One (Blake) - All Religions are One (London: William Blake, ca. 1795), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... Europe (Blake) - Europe: A Prophecy (4 copies printed by Blake, 1794-1821), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... For Children (Blake) - For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Lambeth: Blake and Johnson, 1793), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... For the Sexes (Blake) - For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (London: William Blake, ca. 1825), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... Milton (Blake) - Milton: A Poem (2 copies printed by Blake, ca. 1811), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... There is No Natural Religion (Blake) - There is No Natural Religion (4 copies printed by Blake, 1794-1795), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... The Song of Los (Blake) - The Song of Los (3 copies printed by William Blake, 1795), by William Blake (page images with commentary at blakearchive.org)... Natural Theology (Paley) - Natural Theology: Selections (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963), by William Paley, ed. by Frederick Ferré (PDF at cimmay.us)... How Terrorist Groups End (Jones) - How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qa'ida (2008), by Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki (PDF with commentary at rand.org)... The Valley of Unrest (Sherley) - The Valley of Unrest, by Douglass Sherley, ed. by John Wright (illustrated HTML at southernliterarymessenger.com)... Visual Illusions (Luckiesh) - Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications (1922), by Matthew Luckiesh (illustrated HTML with commentary at visualillusion.net)... Just Two Clicks · Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle - As Barack Obama never tires of saying, America is a country where 'ordinary people can do extraordinary things.' In January 2006, Neil Entwistle, a seemingly ordinary 27-year-old Englishman with an honours degree from the University of York, who had been living in the US for barely four months, shot dead his American wife, Rachel, and their baby daughter, Lillian, with a long-barrelled Colt .22 revolver borrowed from his father-in-law's gun collection. By the time the bodies were discovered in their house in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, huddled together beneath a rumpled duvet in the brand-new four-poster bed bought by the couple just ten days before, Entwistle was home in England, living with his parents in Worksop, as if what had happened in America was a violent dream from which he'd woken to reality in his old back bedroom at 27 Coleridge Road.... A Man or a Girl's Blouse? · Jeremy Harding: Serbia after Karadzic - At the time of the parliamentary elections in Serbia earlier this summer, the possibility that Radovan Karadzic, once the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might be handed over to stand trial at The Hague seemed remote. The acquittal of the former KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj in April had stunned opinion in Serbia and added to the sense that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was a Serb-grinding machine which spat out Bosnians, Kosovo Albanians and Croats intact. The idea of any more Serbs going on trial was not popular: even someone like Karadzic, born in Montenegro, long resident in Sarajevo and regarded by many as a ludicrous figure. His arrest late last month illustrates how rapidly things are changing in Serbia, and how keen the new pro-European leadership is to drive its policies forward. The process of EU accession has long been conditional on the delivery of the big three: Karadzic, Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wanted for the massacre of Croats in Vukovar ... Madame Matisse's Hat · T.J. Clark: On Matisse - Henri Matisse's portrait of his wife, Amélie Parayre, was first shown at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. The catalogue called it simply La Femme au chapeau. Journalists soon decided (or pretended) that Matisse's painting was scandalous, and the public turned up in droves to make fun of it. So far so predictable: the script was forty years old. But on 15 November something unusual happened. Two paragraphs of real and vehement criticism appeared in the Symbolist journal L'Hermitage, signed by the painter-critic Maurice Denis. Ever since, they have haunted our picture of 20th-century art: What one finds above all, particularly in Matisse, is artificiality; not literary artificiality, which follows from the search to give expression to ideas; nor decorative artificiality, as the makers of Turkish and Persian carpets conceived it; no, something more abstract still; painting beyond every contingency, painting in itself, the pure act of painting . . . What you are doing, Matisse, is dialectic: y... When the Floods Came · James Meek on England's Water - Looking through the photographs I took in Tewkesbury in May, I found two pictures of Chuck Pavey and his floodwater hand. There's Pavey, a 66-year-old retired electrician in a Manchester United hooded top, a wispy white pageboy haircut and dark glasses, standing by a wall on the bank of the River Avon. He's holding his right hand horizontally in the air, about thirty centimetres above the top of the wall, which comes up to his waist. The olive-coloured Avon ripples away, three or four metres further below. In the background is an arched pedestrian bridge, a willow tree with its lower fronds stroking the water, and the massive red brick wall of a derelict flour mill. In the next picture, Pavey is standing next to the freshly whitewashed wall of the White Bear pub, looking more agitated, as if he's afraid I still haven't got the point. It's the same stance, except that this time the hand has risen above his head. It hovers about two metres above the level of the road; it comes three-quar... Upwards and Onwards · Stefan Collini: On Raymond Williams - When Raymond Williams died suddenly, aged 66, in January 1988, estimations of him were sharply divided. There were those who regarded him as a deservedly influential literary and cultural critic, a major socialist theorist and an exemplary instance of the union of intellectual seriousness and political purpose. There were others who thought he had for too long enjoyed an inflated reputation, that he was a muddy thinker and verbose writer who had been swept to a form of cultural celebrity by the vogue for working-class sentimentalism in the 1960s and lefter-than-thou self-righteousness in the 1970s.... The Iron Rule · Jacqueline Rose: Bernhard Schlink's Guilt - Towards the end of Bernhard Schlink's best-known novel, The Reader, the narrator is pondering his future after taking his state exam in law. He has just seen his former lover, Hanna Schmitz, convicted of war crimes: she had been a concentration camp guard, something he hadn't known when she seduced him as a 15-year-old boy. None of the roles he saw played out in court appeals to him: 'Prosecution seemed to me as grotesque a simplification as defence, and judging was the most grotesque oversimplification of all.' He has lost his belief in post-Enlightenment law as enacting a gradual but steady progress towards 'greater beauty and truth, rationality and humanity, despite terrible setbacks and retreats'. Now the law seems to him more like Odysseus' journey - a process that endlessly circles back to its original starting point only to set off again. In this reading, the Odyssey is a story of motion, at once successful and futile, driven and without aim: 'What else is the history of law?'... Diary · Jenny Diski tries to stay awake - If you set aside the incomparable cruelty and stupidity of human beings, surely our most persistent and irrational activity is to sleep. Why would we ever allow ourselves to drop off if sleeping was entirely optional? Sleep is such a dangerous place to go to from consciousness: who in their right mind would give up awareness, deprive themselves of control of their senses, volunteer for paralysis, and risk all the terrible things (and worse) that could happen to a person when they're not looking? As chief scientist in charge of making the world a better place, once I'd found a way of making men give birth, or at least lactate, I'd devote myself to abolishing the need for sleep. Apart from the dangers of letting your guard down, there's the matter of time.... Not My Fault · John Lanchester: New Labour's Terrible Memoirs - New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's own memoirs, are still to come. It is an unprecedented cascade of memoirs by prominent figures in a government which is, let's not forget, still in power. The phenomenon seemed odd when it began - Lance Price was called in front of a Parliamentary committee in December 2005 to account for his temerity in publishing his insider's account. By now we're used to it, and it's getting to the point where it would be more surprising for a New Labour insider not to publish a book explaining how he/she was both a. more at the centre of things than anybody had hitherto suspected while also b. not to ... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 16... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 16... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |