... The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation by Frederic Spotts .

(Hat tip, Dan Colman.)

. . . intended only to bring a smile your way :): Emptying the Saloon Pocket Punch 'n' Judy Signing the John Hancock Dragging Thysel...

WTFs? Does this constitute a variation on The Ejaculation Proclamation? "The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married co...

In The Globe and Mail 's ongoing Greatest Fifty Books series, Konrad Eisenbichler explores the values and vices of Boccaccio's mast...

... but it sounds well worthwhile: Einstein & Eddington .

... The Undying Animal .

Another angle on Steven Shapin's The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Theodore M. Porter: . . . For an o...

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction: Stories . . . . Whether people noticed his minor is another matter. He says that after he had d...

... Masterpiece Man . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... you've got plenty of time: What’s depressing me today: galaxies colliding .

... Pax Americana . Bear in mind this blog is now a joint Canadian-American enterprise. (Oh Judith, would you stop Bogarting that spiff, ple...

... Rare book room of delights .

... Philadelphia paper starts magazine for affluent . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) I think such a publication aimed at those who attend theater, o...

... POD moves up a further step .

... What type is that blog? Typealyzer . Since this blog's posts tend to be pretty evenly divided between Judith and me I assume the res...

... on Andrew Marvell: Then and Now .

... Regina Marler on Ted Hughes’ Letters . Quite a fine piece. Perhaps you have to have been married to a tormented and talented woman to re...

... Pasolini's Roman poetry .

... of St. Cecilia, patron saint of music.

... was a couple of days ago. But we can be philsophocal about that, can't we? In the meantime, Four philosophical questions to make you...

... How Wood Works: The Riches and Limits of James Wood . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think it is worth reminding ourselves that the value of cr...

... of Simply Haiku is up.

... Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The only one that holds any allure for me is Sebastian Barr...

... “…wide open spaces high above the kitchen.”

... Dr. Dalrymple's latest Global Warning . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Edgar Holloway: painter-etcher .

... When Science Sparked the Poetic Imagination . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

. . . for a Grand, Alex? Amazing. Had planned to post this when I found a moment today; and, of all things winding up right beneath it, I s...

... Tennessee’s Tragic Muse .

... for some jazz: Coleman Hawkins and William Matthews .

... On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886), by Anton Chekhov . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Blood in the mud .

... A Civil War Battle: A New Way With Death .

... The Short, Unhappy Death of Leo Tolstoy . ... England Taxes Jane Carlyle .

... to the free market of ideas: Michael Crichton and authorship . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I had the temerity to add a comment to the post Max...

... `Where Are the Songs of Spring?' (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Pot, Meet Kettle . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Wolff's views may not be above reproach, but they certainly are beneath contempt.

... LIFE photo archive hosted by Google .

Untold Stories from India . "The country takes a back seat to Africa when it comes to world awareness of the disease. Essayists reveal...

... and probably never left: The new anti-Semitism ?

. . . in The Los Angeles Times : "According to the U.S. Department of Justice, just more than 2,000 children are reported missing every...

... of TLS Letters . Rothko, Dirk, Noël and more!

An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship . Nancy L. Rosenblum actually appreciates parties and partisanship? That's one and countin...

... not religion. Or maybe ... Destructive Delusions . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Perhaps the most alarming (or depressing) thing about this stor...

"For us there is only the trying . . ." ". . . Who invited all the fancy people, publishing peons wonder? " I thought th...

. . . and you will discover the remarkable life of Dr. Johnson's "Dear Mistress" . . .

In his latest novel, The Fire Gospel , the former militant aetheist, Michel Faber, addresses the consolations of religion : Prometheus's...

. . . and, that, M'Dear Inq.uers, says it all . . .

. . . on the annual Literary Review 's "Bad-Sex Writing" finalists . . . Well, not literally . . . He actually typed the post...

. . . A friend sent this pic to me earlier today with the following translation: This photograph, "The Eye of God," was taken with...

... David Hume and Standards of Taste .

... Bjørn Lomborg's . ... Ian McEwan's . (Hat tip to Dave Lull, for both links.) I'll opt for Lomborg's myself. Among other ...

... is grounded in its past: Phila. art studio teaches Old World technique .

... Alistair Cooke, 100 . For me, acquaintance with Alistair Cooke began with Omnibus , a Sunday afternoon show on NBC TV. One of the episod...

... Neal Pollack Strikes Back (2003) .

... skip on over to Ed's Reluctant Habits and just keep scrolling. ... do the same at GalleyCat .

... so what? Buster Keaton's The General . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... THE RISE OF THE JOURNO-GURUS . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The operative word is the one that appears in the deck: hacks. These are people who...

... Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I haven't read 2666 . The best book I read this year was Tan Twan ...

... Prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years . ... Myanmar activists jailed for 65 years: family . I should have poste...

... National Book Awards - 2008 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Triple play: Finkelstein to Harris to Wiggen .

... 'Meh': Apathetic expression enters dictionary . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Nabokov's final literary striptease . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... the winner of the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize .

... on Clive Barnes .

... The scandal of literary prizes . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Post bumped, link now has updates.

... Updike slams modern American fiction . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... for our friend Jim Carmin: Gems of the Private Press Movement . ... and here is information about the exhibition: Gems of the Private Pr...

... not a hiding place: Jeanette Winterson on Shafts of sunlight . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In the land of reality TV and confessional talk sho...

... Clive Barnes has died . ... Here's Terry Teachout: Clive Barnes, R.I.P. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Jonestown and 'confirmation bias' . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I try to restrict my policy reading to data analyses. But I find mysel...

... Zbigniew Herbert: The Collected Poems - review: Lies have to be beautiful . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... not: University fires teacher for blog post .

... Uncle Walt .

... and an open one: What Is Art For? (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... THE PERELANDRA PROJECT . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I hope Henry Gee can attend and tell me about it. What about you, Maxine? Can you attend?

... William James and Alfred Kazin: Flying Solo .

... Two Books That Deal With the Battle of Gettysburg Could Win 2008 National Book Awards on Wednesday, 145th Anniversary the Gettysburg Add...

... Actor supreme Christopher Plummer will be at the library tonight in connection with his just-published memoir In Spite of Myself. I hav...

... Uninvited Spirits . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... and lost again: The Art of Conversation .

... or Tiptoeing around Updike . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Leomania : [A] 73-year-old Canadian remembered mainly as a 1960s bedsitter balladeer is hardly the stuff of 21st century pop stardom, howeve...

... Eavesdropping on Tom Stoppard with Gwen Orel . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... An Ode to Copy Editors .

... Never Wobbly . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Artist Nelson Shanks told me that when he was painting Lady Thatcher's portrait, one of the thi...

... The sad, sad state of college English . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Francoise Sagan: Sex, Drugs and Literature . Sagan was so, so big a name when I was in high school.

... Essays in Orni-Theology . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The contentious crowd of English sparrows that I watch every morning in my back yard see...

... What is the most longstanding influential book commenting on science? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Snow's book came out when I was in coll...

... Paul Davis . I first to know Paul when he reviewed for me. After I retired I got to know him better, since we live only minutes away fro...

... How Does the Nobel Change A Small Press? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... why bet on climate forecasts? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... in the wake of a financial crisis brought on (partly) by a reliance on the fin...

Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis . "Readers deserve to know that even now The Kennedy Tapes cannot be relied on ...

... My new column — quotations, essays and following a train of thought wherever it leads . Dave Lull has sent me a very complimentary email...

. . . with that wine? Ontario vineyard launches wine with poetry . Perhaps Kraft™ could launch a complementary line featuring fiction writ...