Edmund Wilson on Marxism
I have just re-read, for the first time in decades, Edmund Wilson’s To the Finland Station — which, it...
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empire and critique
Many years ago I wrote an essay on the great Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe in which I looked at what I believed to be...
accommodation and perversion
I wrote recently that I see world-building in SF and fantasy as coming in two chief varieties, the speculative and the...
respect
Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry (Wikimedia) Suzanne Berne on Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, by Viviane Forrester:...
readerly triage
In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...
Mark Greif and Mrs. Turpin
I’ve written a review of Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man for Books and Culture, but it won’t appear for...
biases
I’m reading the first volume of David Bromwich’s projected two-volume intellectual biography of Edmund Burke, and...
beyond snark and smarm
Just a brief couple of comments on the whole snark-vs.-smarm Ultimate Revenge Cage Match that was kicked off by Tom...
I want to believe
Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...
doing things with computers
This is the kind of thing I just don’t understand the value or use of: This paper is the report of a study...