By David Prescott ‘Gardening. No hope for the future.’ Franz Kafka ‘At least he had gardening.’ Samuel Beckett At a time when words mean whatever powerful people want them to mean, it seems futile to believe in their (I mean words’) ability to bridge the chasms of loneliness between people that lead to war. But […]
Mark Lawson, TV critic and commentator on all things culture for both the BBC and the Guardian recently wrote a piece for the latter (published in the Saturday Review, Feb 6th) which anoints Philp Roth, the “greatest” american novelist alive “by default”. Indeed, Lawson says JD Salinger’s death on Jan 27th, following that of Bellow, […]
On Monday (Feb 7th) the New York Times (aka “The Paper of Record”) published an endearingly (if not intentionally) honest piece about Wall Street’s attempts to stop Obama’s “attacks” on Big Business (yes, dear reader, we too were left wondering “this is attacking???”). Money quote: … industry executives and lobbyists are warning Democrats that if […]
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