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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Oxford University Press: The Philosophers: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Montaigne and the macaques | Books | The Guardian

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Literary Review – Simon Sebag Montefiore – ‘Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir’ by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Simon Sebag Montefiore HELL FROZEN OVER Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir By Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (Translated and edited by Deborah Kaple) (Oxford University Press 272pp £17) Mochulsky (right) In 1940, a 22-year-old Soviet engineer named Fyodor Mochulsky finished his studies … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Carr Reviews Douglas Coupland’s “Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing Of My Work!” | The New Republic

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Macmillan: Google Book Preview for “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976: (Lectures at the Collège de France): Books: Michel Foucault

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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The One-Eyed Man Is King

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010 | The Beast

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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New Statesman – Blair, the BBC and dictatorship

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Over on his blog the BBC’s chief political correspondent Nick Robinson posts a revealing PS about Blair’s second appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. What is emerging before our eyes is a clash of cultures between a … Continue reading →

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The Preparation of the Novel by Roland Barthes reviewed by Mairéad Hanrahan – TLS

Posted on January 21, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Kate Briggs’s wonderful translation finally makes available in English a most unusual book by one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. The Preparation of the Novel comprises the notes of the third and last lecture course … Continue reading →

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THE SIXTIES: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960–1969 by Christopher Isherwood reviewed by James Fenton – TLS

Posted on January 21, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

“Don is very conscious of the existence of this “old black book,” as he calls it. He’s sure it’s full of criticism of him. I tell him, well, when I die, all he has to do is burn it.” Don … Continue reading →

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