... Wendy Cope on A.E. Housman . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Constitution Day . I sometimes get the impression that what others do not understand about this country and its constitution is that the...

... Who am I? Of course, he did go to Harvard, and his pedigree was impeccable.

... Creationism and the Royal Society . I defer to Bryan on this because I know he knows a heck of a lot more about science than I do. Also,...

... Remembering David Foster Wallace .

... A Poem Saves A Fighting Ship (1830) .

... Wire fans should visit the 87th Precinct . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

The process took 16 days for a supercomputer to run the numbers ; but, "working with an international team, Carleton University's M...

... Jenny Davidson wil be Reading in Philadelphia . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Another Harvard professor helpfully suggests that we make hits . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

. . . and so much more! Vancouver's John MacLachlan Gray's Very Much Alive . . . and delivered both wondrous words and magnif music...

Sir Bob's got a certain ring-zing thing to it, IMO. One of our literary lions who's been in it for the long haul, he and Robertson ...

... also very effective: ‘Secrets of Inchon’ deserve to be widely known .

Who could forget My Beautiful Laundrette ? Novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi hangs it all on the line.

James Adams, one of Canada's finest beat writers at Canada's finest newspaper — er, caveat, I write for it; but, I can still get all...

... Warning sounded on web's future . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) "The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real scie...

... Prospero’s Island? . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... as soon as they're available in England: Books special: Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? . (Hat tip, Dave Lull...

... Mysteries often get a bad rap . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... Agatha Christie Tapes Discovered . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... The Last Political Post .

... to Richard Dawkins - and it's his good side: No Science, Please . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... in this volume we see another side of th...

... Anti-Americanism in Europe Fueled by Ignorance .

... The Best American Novelist You've Never Heard Of .

... Curator: Poe's Remains to Remain in Baltimore . Well, one thing Philadelphia didn't do to Poe was kill him, which is more than w...

... Brokers Roaring Like Beasts . My own choice of Auden as pertaining to the financial news would be this, from "The Geography of the ...

... The Big Poem .

... or had read to you by somebody on TV - about Wall Street's recent turmoil. Instead, read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's THE FOURTH QUAD...

... What’s the Funniest Novel Ever? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) My first thought was of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall , but I'll go wit...

... Between the Lines: A world of detective fiction . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... is another's soapbox derby: Speaking of soapboxes . Since the derby does seem to have taken place, it also seems that the Times repo...

... Vaclav Havel: life after revolution . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Christian creationism is verboten, but Muslim and Hindu creationism are OK: Creationism and the advance of counterknowledge . What do I ...

... Corduroy Mansions . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... the explanation we've all been waiting for. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... to David Foster Wallace. (Hat tip, Jim Carmin.) From Amherst: In Memoriam: David Foster Wallace '85 . From Pomona College: A Lette...

... Why Libraries Are Back in Style . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Interesting, isnt it, how libraries seem to have adapted to technological - and ...

... The End . If this happens, it will be because publishers have become as parochial as the news media by assuming that the only thoughts w...

... Home Is Where the Hurt Is . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... The visions of Orwell and Waugh . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Borobudur, Path to Enlightenment . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... with Joseph Wambaugh: Semper Cop .

... Drilling Through Data . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... so visit Petrona and keep scrolling.

... My Favourite Things .

... Eating veggies shrinks the brain . The article says nothing of the kind. It isn't eating veggies that is connected with brain shrink...

... Motion Blocked .

... to Nigel Beale and keep scrolling.

... Neal Stephenson takes the long view . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Rushing, a little, because it has been on-off, on-off Y/Ikes for most of Ontario this afternoon and evening (and, anyone who experiences bar...

... Poetry and Place: "Landscape and Lyricism."

... The love lives of the ancient Romans .

... I thought species surivived because of their superior adaptational skills: Luck Was Key to Dinosaurs’ Survival, Study Suggests . What do...

... this is an awfully good Cezanne .

... A Heartbreaking Story of Unbearable Cuteness .

... Wilder's Bidet, Beckett's Hopes .

... Screening New York . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... light blogging. I have garden work to do.

... An Outbreak of Paganism in Carshalton . As E.E. Cummings observed, "a world of made is not a world of born."

... Author Herman Wouk's spellbinding ways . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I had a friend college who absolutely fell in love with Youngblood Ha...

... Tinker, tailor, soldier, defector — John le Carré: I nearly left the West . Hard to believe the royalty checks didn't influence his...

... When life's an Eagles game . ... Raw grief: Writing as a new widow . ... Turn off the TV and read about football . ... Sending up th...

... Writer David Foster Wallace found dead .

... with Katie .

Puh-leeze . . . Say it ain't so, Rawi-Beau :( . . . Rawi Hage , most recent recipient of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, "still fu...

... Tony Hendra's Magical Misery Tour (which uses Lennon's own words; see John Lennon and Magical Misery Tour ).

... Traveler, yes, traveler .(Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I am afraid Ebert seems a bit like a fool... Indeed, he seems, to me, a rather predictabl...

Now, now. We all know many consider the NYT cutting edge; but, the first word in this review of Alice Mattison's newest needs a little...

... Are Too Many People Going to College? ... the core knowledge transcends one’s own country. Not to recognize Falstaff, Apollo, the Sistin...

If reviews of books could kill, we'd have a mass exodus over the repetition of "as" three times in the following travestatious...

At 81, John Ashbery still grooves, moves, and proves the media are the messages , especially when it comes to scissors and paste.

... A Chilling View of Warming . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I have long thought Friedman to be an overrated huckster. But, like any good huckster...

... On the Edge of Discovery . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... of TLS Letters .

... A Revolutionary Simpleton . The "desire to escape from provincial gentility in America" - and the dislike of democracy is char...

... John Betjeman's radio poems . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Edit me .

... `Life Dances Upon Life's Grave ' .

... Return of the living dea d . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) To be fair, the book came out, I think, around the time I got out of high school, and...

Will Self steers readers along a narcissistic route (and, one cannot fail but note, given the reviewer's self-fondness, it's not b...

Bruce Springsteen, Britney Spears and, now? The Singing Priests ink a mega-mil deal with Sony/BMG. Under the name "The Priests"...

Sam Leith jumps from a moving train of Reading thought before he gets on the right track concerning that rich and steamy stuff one finds be...

Not-to-Miss Canadian Bliss and Diss in The Globe and Mail this morning. (Beware those with locks, however; they've perished, now.)

New-Jersey Frank got this off LifeHacker who got it off Waxy which slowed down my computer too much so I gave up tracking it to its source ...

... The Most Dangerous Book of Poetry Ever Written . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) And here you can a look: The Book of Counted Sorrows . Koontz wou...

How poet / artist Joe Brainard's transgressive passion for the spiky-haired icon inspired him to invent poetry comics (with a little hel...

Poet and songwriter John Mackie lifted her lingerie right off the line . Lovely! Gives a whole new meaning to pantemeter, don't it?

... Writer behind 'Fletch' novels . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... Prowling the files: Auberon Waugh on Anthony Powell . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This is a good time to remember Auberon Waugh's treatmen...

... John Singer Sargent Beyond the Portrait Studio .

... Literary Arts: 25 Years of Enriching Oregonians with Language and Literature . See also: A big birthday for Literary Arts; Wordstock...

... Olivier Messiaen, "Louange à l'éternité de Jésus." (Hat tip, Father Gerald Carey.)

... NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Funny. I just got off the phone with a friend of Dana's who told me...

... A Sickert . (You have click on that elongated blank box right about the post.

... The pianist Paul Wittgenstein is the hero of a family saga . See also: Local premiere, first recording of the elusive Hindemith .

... Agrapha . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This is very interesting blog.

The other day I finished reading Katie's zine, The House You Grew Up In . I am almost ashamed to admit that it is the first zine I have ...

... Owen Gingerich "On God:" Faith and the Laws of Nature . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Some events that seem totally incredulous to tho...

... after all these years: Philip Roth: America the dutiful . One slight correction: Bucknell is in Lewisburg, Pa., which is not in Western ...