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We’re used to thinking about how Dostoevsky read Pushkin, or Balzac, or Sand. But we hear less about what he made of Gan or Panaeva as writers. You can repeat this pattern for generations of nineteenth-century Russian writers. Russian men read Russian men, Western European men, and a handful of Western European...
Dear Chief Justice Surya Kant: I commend you for your discovery this week that time is finite. On Wednesday, when a petitioner confronted you with video evidence of police brutality on July 20 against the students protesting peacefully in and around Jantar Mantar over exam paper leaks and a dire lack of good jobs in...
Well, look at who's on the cover. Groucho! And he's either pulling our leg, or he's undergone something of a change during the six years he's been doing You Bet Your Life on radio and television. Oh, he's still the wisecracking fast-talker we've come to know and love from all these years; what's changed is the way...
Blog is on a summer break until Sep 2. I plan on enjoying my time off and figuring out next steps in my personal and professional life. Wishing everyone peace of mind and good vibes.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Guy Fawkes said that, and so did Esmerelda, Gustavo’s daughter, when I went to visit him at the hospital. Gustavo is my landlord of seven years, owner of the place I landed once the scripts went un-optioned and the residuals dried up, an eight bungalow court on the fringe...
Horse laugh. Near Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee. A few weeks ago I took on the issue of "photographs" created by AI. Are they photographs, or are they not? My position is that they are not photographs. As I wrote before, the essence of photography is that it is photographic. It is a picture made by the action...
“Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which together accounted for about 48% of African smartphone shipments in 2025 – more than 40 million of the 84.4 million handsets...
Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake, 2005I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-conditioned experience on these recent hot days, even though many of his landscape paintings depict tropical vegetation and sunlit Caribbean beaches. In her catalogue essay, 'Home and the World:...
US friends, here are more opportunities to stand up for libraries! Support the Books Save Lives Act by signing a petition and e-mailing your representatives. 📚
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the remainder of Galactic Mutant Animals. To give this series some sense of organization, check out...
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