Round Two at Oxford
Dennis Johnson
A few months back, the race for the revered position as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University turned into an ugly brawl, whereby a poet (Derek Walcott) known in America… Read more »
A few months back, the race for the revered position as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University turned into an ugly brawl, whereby a poet (Derek Walcott) known in America… Read more »
Gadget Lab’s current column at Wired suggests that the new, inexpensive Kobo e-Reader is the real Kindle-killer, at a mere $150, not the iPad: “The bare-bones reader looks very similar… 4 / Read more »
“Return with me now to the lusty days of yore,” writes Ron Rosenbaum in his newest Slate column … … when engagé public intellectuals battled it out over Trotskyism, anarcho-syndicalism,… 2 / Read more »
Kenan Malik’s From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Aftermath (forthcoming in June from Melville House) has been longlisted for the George Orwell Book Prize. The award is… Read more »
“For decades, Arabic fiction was associated with the name of one man: Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature,” observes Hamza Hendawi in an Associated Press wire… 2 / Read more »