Fourth blogger killed by Mexican cartel, #OpCartel spokesman on the run
The Houston Chronicle reported last week that the Mexican drug cartel Zetas killed and beheaded a blogger in Nuevo Laredo, a city “all but” controlled by the violent gang. The blogger… Read more »
Congratulations to Alexis Jenni, winner last week of the Prix Goncourt for his debut novel L’Art francais de la guerre (The French Art of War), a 600-page novel about France’s… 1 / Read more »
Tougher times than usual for translators?
Every now and then translation becomes a hot topic. More often than not the new interest is prompted by some landmark new book; at the moment, of course, it’s Murakami’s… Read more »
1 in 5 dollars ends up as Wall Street Profit
Truth-Out.org highlights this salient and shocking fact from this Naked Capitalism article by David Graeber (author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years): Given the fact that interest payments alone takes… Read more »
The Russian Writers’ Workshop
Formerly Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is approaching year eight of a thirteen-year prison sentence — a sentence that is widely believed to be politically motivated. He’s spent quite a… Read more »
David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and one of Occupy Wall Street’s “main intellectual sources” according to the The Chronicle of Higher Education, debates debt, economics, and justice on MSNBC.
In a wide-ranging profile of Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez by Larry Rohter in the New York Times, the literary significance of Sánchez’s writing is explored more fully than many have appreciated. Sánchez,… Read more »
A book deal seems about to cause a major Congressional train wreck. According to a Bloomberg News wire story, “The internal split between Republicans and Democrats on the congressionally appointed… Read more »
If, as Christopher Hitchens notes in a recent Slate column, Julian Assange “is plainly a micro-megalomaniac with few if any scruples and an undisguised agenda,” then there’s not much to… Read more »
Here’s an interesting report from Agence France Presse : One was a grumpy Atlanticist who clashed with General De Gaulle, the other a slick French-speaker who saw a Britain “at… 2 / Read more »