Modern photography is steeped in the instantaneous: exposures are so brief that the unassisted eye in the same interval (less than half a second) would see nothing. The modern photograph always shows us what we have never seen before, hence its etern more »
Jul 26, 2011 by Mandelbrot in Photography
What happens when you take a famous poem and run it through a series of European language translations and back to English? more »
Words from 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, published by American Heritage Dictionaries. more »
Aug 25, 2008 in Lists
langwage binds us 2gethr separatelee n parts n sharing almost replikating nevr reelee xact wun uv th biggest communal spells we ar all bound n unbound in more »
Jun 26, 2008 by bill bissett in FICTION
The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, two novels by Jasper Fforde (New English Library), are easy to read and chock-full of smart puns, literary references and grammatical gags that are fun to fall for. The protagonist is a detective named Thursday Next—not your Inspector Wexford-type dick, but an operative in the LiteraTecs, a branch of SpecOps, or specialized police force. more »
Mar 7, 2011 by Karen Schendlinger in Reviews
In 1929 Morley Callaghan and his wife Loretta went to Paris, where they hung out in cafés with writers and artists and rubberneckers and lounge lizards, spent a couple of hilarious evenings with James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle, and eventually Callaghan knocked Hemingway down in the sparring match that entered literary history (Scott Fitzgerald was the timekeeper who forgot to keep time), and which is the central event in Morley Callaghan’s memoir That Summer in Paris (Exile Editions). Callaghan is a good writer and this is a book one wants to read in a single sitting. more »
Jul 24, 2007 by Lorna Crozier in Reviews
I saw Intacto (Lions Gate) at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2002 and loved it. The film is about an underground ring of gamblers who bet on people’s luck. more »
Jul 24, 2007 by Blaine Kyllo in Reviews
In Caroline Blackwood’s slim novel Great Granny Webster (NYRB), set in Britain in the 1940s, a teenage girl is sent to live with her great-grandmother in a lifeless Victorian mansion near Brighton. Sea air has been recommended for her anemia, but the girl, who is never named, rarely gulps fresh air or fresh anything else in Granny’s cold, sterile house. more »
Jul 24, 2007 by Kris Rothstein in Reviews
