... Reasons to think . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The more we are able to engage the world with our whole selves -- reason, imagination, feeling ...

... HBO's Taking Chance, a good film to watch on Memorial Day .

... Splitting the Stone . (Just scroll down.)

... A S Byatt on translated (crime) fiction . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The only menace is inertia. - Saint-John Perse , born on this date in 1887

... Did early hunters cause climate change? When hunters arrived in North America and drove mammoths and other large mammals to extinction,...

... Hitch 22: A memoir by Christopher Hitchens . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... e-books are different from traditional books: Further Thoughts of a Novice E-Reader . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Mark Sarvas on Rachel Cusk's The Bradshaw Variations . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... John Lennon Poetry Competition to be judged by Poet Laureate . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... New Poems . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Nassim at Lunch . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) See also Hopper Lives . (The Iggy Pop bit reminds me of what Dock Elllis said when asked how he ...

... Tracing the downfall of a mob icon . ... An artful look inside a newspaper . ... An unsung hero of Tiananmen S...

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer...

... Dennis Hopper: the hippest American bikes off .

We will be in and out today - I just came from produce shopping, which followed a sung Mass at St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church, the oldest...

... Publishing’s Not Dead: The Industry Responds to Garrison Keillor . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Spirituality Without Spirits . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Debbie and I went to see Anthony Lawton's excellent stage adaptation of C. S. ...

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton , born on this date in 1874

... The past is a foreign country; they write poems differently there . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The question, I suppose, is who is facing rea...

... of space and time: The parascience delusion . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... About Stefan Zweig & Michael Hofmann- a riposte . (Via Philosophy, lit, etc. ) I recently read Zweig's book about Verlaine. I th...

... DON’T SHOOT THAT MOCKINGBIRD! (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Martin Gardner, a 'whys' man. ... More philosophy bits (including Nick Lowe). ... Morley Callaghan interview (1977) ...

... "Twelve Poems with Flowers."

... "He lies under a world's weight of incubus and nightmare," or, Literary lassitude .

... "Dear Clifford's Seat": A Lost World .

... Guardian Says It Needs to Become an Open Platform . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This certainly bears watching. I hope it works.

... Happy Birthday to Ian Fleming .

... On Crime & Thrillers column: Boston Noir .

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of t...

... via Dave Lull:

... The Metaphysics of The Fly . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I'm not sure about whether or not dogs (or cats) can reason. When I found my lat...

... 50 Iconic Book Covers .

...and "parascientists" as per Marilynne Robinson .

... and on the other: Vetting Tariq Ramadan . As far as Ramadan's being "ambiguous" regarding the stoning of adulteresses, in ...

... Superstition and Evolutionary Psychology . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The comments are excellent also.

... 'Ava and Hemingway' exhibit extended six months . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... Read More Than Respected . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. - Herman Wouk , born on this date in 1915

... Jay Leno on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

... sort of: Oxford Professor of Poetry Candidate statements . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I could never be a candidate for this position, but if ...

Published in 1972, but long out of print in the United States, Aidan Higgins's Balcony of Europe is a masterpiece - a long, complex, mo...

... of TLS Letters : The future of the humanities, Unfashionable Toynbee, Missing Eliot, and more!

... Committing savage satire, respecting readers and finding the odd in sex: Colin Marshall talks to Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Wa...

... Harvard’s paper cuts . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Bookshelves of the Rich and Famous .

... Vocabula Editing & Writing Services .

... Electronic Literature Directory .

... Lisa reads: The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson.

... Who Was Charles Dickens?

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths. - Alexander Pushkin , born on this date in 1799

... but here's some very nice music (God I loved Harry James when I was a little kid).

... Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award .

... Twain on Twain After a Long Silence .

... for Saturday Literature Links and something else besides.

... Search for a New Poetics Yields This: 'Kitty Goes Postal/Wants Pizza' . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) "Flarf is a hip, digital rea...

... well, here's a site you might want to bookmark: Chris Around the World . Chris is a former colleague. I just ran into her this morni...

... Rad Decision with James Aach .

... Living in denial: Questioning science isn't blasphemy . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) As philosopher Edward Skidelsky of the University of E...

... and why there wasn't one last week: You can’t think your way to truth .

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-L...

... to human Prudence . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... The Lysander Spooner Reader .

... of Attitude House by Vincent Quatroche .

... at Five Chapters: One Good Reason Why Not .

... Bob Dylan on Poets and Poets on Bob Dylan .

... Local Area Events .

... No Museum Left Behind : The relocation of the Barnes Foundation to downtown Philadelphia is fueled by ignorance and avarice, not altrui...

... the conclusion of the first movement of Mahler's eighth symphony, whoich is a setting of the Medieval hymn "Veni Creator Spirit...

... Merging internet personae, and the importance of relevance . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Martin Gardner, 1914-2010 R.I.P.

... Richard Rodriguez on Catholic Church Embroiled in Scandal . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... International Dagger shortlist, announced and reviewed . See also: Book Review: The First Rule by Robert Crais .

... Lolita - What If?

... but worth reading anyway: Redactor Agonistes . Hat tip goes to Lynne Scanlon, who singles out this paragraph: By readers, I don't me...

... much that is interesting: Henrietta Lacks . Venter’s Bugs (in which Bryan poses a very good question: Why is it that biology brings out...

... John Timpane on A satisfying final part of 'Girl' trilogy . ... Yours truly A riveting whodunit from Tolkien's grandson . ...

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. - Margaret Fuller , born on this date...

... to Salem County, N.J.

...the 2010 Triple Canopy Commissions .

... The Exit Interview: Poet Laureate Kay Ryan . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Humans: Why They Triumphed . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The answer lies in a new idea, borrowed from economics, known as collective intellig...

... courtesy of Rus Bowden: Society for the Dissolution of Learning, by Angela Ball . Sentimental Education, by Tony Hoagland . The Scar, ...

... A Poem to Die For . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Rus also sent along this: Abducted Kurdish Writer Is Found Dead in Iraq . All proudly "...

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in r...

... of TLS Letters : The future of the humanities, Pushkin's last, Manhattan rents, and more!

... Yugh! There's sauce all over our post .

... TLS Poetry Competition 2010 Winners .

... Top 10 UK Literature Blogs . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Chapter 7 .

... Winners and Finalists of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards .

... 41% Say Random Selection From Phone Book Would Do A Better Job Than Current Congress .

... Desperate science fiction author offers cash for readers . (Hat tip, Lee Lowe, who correctly describes it as "a novel approach....

... sparked by this: Platonism . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Luckily for Plato, he was not a Platonist. He says in one of his letters that no one ...

... NOISE trailer .

...an Open House at: Ironstone Sculpture Garden This 4.5 acre sculpture garden, with its wild grasses, trees an...

... Winners of the Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers Announced .