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Protected: Children Of God — Mary Doria Russell
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Walk the Line: Fact and Fiction
We finally saw Walk the Line this afternoon and I can’t say enough good things about it. Phoenix and Witherspoon are spectactular; she in particular absolutely lights up the screen and if anything sings better than June Carter did in … Continue reading
The Plot Against Imagination
I just finished Philip Roth’s latest novel, The Plot Against America, and I have to say I was much less than impressed, especially given that I read it immediately following Five Days In Philadelphia: The Amazing “We Want Willkie” Convention … Continue reading
Optimism and the Long Now
Brian Eno, Art Gallery Of Toronto, 21 April 2005 One of the high points of my trip to Toronto (and there were many; more posts to come) was a lecture by Brian Eno. It’s hard to explain Eno to people … Continue reading
Left, Right and Wrong
Mother Jones this month had a surprisingly refreshing article (use code MJJ9AK to view the whole thing) on the failures of the left, which spoke to me more than almost anything else I’d read on the subject. The central thesis … Continue reading
Today’s LJ Finds
I am, apparently not as nerdy as silvertide: Thanks to markbourne, one of whose stories is among the top downloads at Electric Story, I found this wonderful journalism wish-fulfillment piece by Terry Bisson: Meat the Press. And finally, a post … Continue reading
The Time When Reason Triumphed Over Unreason
Having just finished Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, Confusion, and The System Of the World), I finally picked up James Gleick’s biography of Isaac Newton.
Today’s Clips
David Brooks, the junior member of the minority party on the Times Op-Ed page, had me nodding along in his column about John Kerry this morning. His basic point was that Kerry’s Vietnam-era speeches were passionate and full of conviction, … Continue reading