» the last liberal
10/02/12 00:05 from 3quarksdaily
“The twentieth century,” Tony Judt asserts in this luminous book of conversations with the Yale historian Timothy Snyder, “is the century of the intellectuals.” What does it say about intellectuals, then, that the century..
» A reflexive “aqua-nationalism”
09/02/12 23:59 from 3quarksdaily
Canadians are still “dead serious” about water. Coureurs de bois and the ghost of Tom Thomson haunt the misty lakes of our collective subconscious. The effect, too often, is to dissolve reasoned debate about the subject i..
» The Great Fallon-Obama Potato Sack Race
09/02/12 14:45 from Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
It probably is said too much now, but coming from a time when black people were almost exclusively subordinate on television, this sort of thing is amazing. The Obama Presidency is, if anything else, a really special reality show for black ..
» The Lost Battalion
09/02/12 12:30 from Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
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» Thinking About The New Kennedy Revelations
09/02/12 12:00 from Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy It\'s interesting that Janet Maslin\'s review of Mimi Alford\'s new memoir takes Alford to task more than it does the man at the center of the book--John F. Kennedy. ..
» America\'s Best Literary Journalist
09/02/12 07:21 from Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
The Times profiles the intrepid Katherine Boo : Ms. Boo graduated from Barnard in the late \'80s, still typing -- for The Columbia Daily Spectator, for which she wrote editorials -- and was hired by Jack Shafer, then the editor of the Washi..
» Julian Barnes reviews The Iron Lady
09/02/12 06:13 from 3quarksdaily
Julian Barnes in the New York Review of Books :
Philip Larkin was one of those who adored Mrs. Thatcher. “I got the blue flash,” he reported after meeting her—that moment of what the diarist and Tory minister Alan Clark (who also ado..