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This week (September 29th-October 6th) is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. It’s unfortunate but true that there are still places where some books can’t be read, and still people everywhere who want to ban books. Three years ago MobyLives published a small news item about PABBIS (Parents Against Bad Books In Schools). As [...]
It’s subtitled “a biography”, and it’s supposedly about Vita Sackville-West, but Virginia Woolf’s Orlando reads, instead, like a long, bizarre fairy tale. It’s the story of a young man who, in Chapter Three, becomes a young woman, who falls in love, has his heart broken (but not hers), travels, lives with gypsies, skates on the Thames during [...]
When I was in my early twenties a strange thing happened. For most of my life at that point I’d been in school. Then I graduated. I was done with school. I wouldn’t say I was done learning, but, for the time being, any formal education—any sitting around in a classroom pretending to be interested, [...]
If there is anything special about this event, it lies in the extreme disproportion between Hirst’s expected prices and his actual talent. Hirst is basically a pirate, and his skill is shown by the way in which he has managed to bluff so many art-related people, from museum personnel such as Tate’s Nicholas Serota to [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion of race lately. I can’t imagine why—you’d think it were all tied up with a presidential race or something like that. Whenever issues of race come up there are a couple of events that always come to my mind. When I was a senior in high school and taking [...]
I love slang dictionaries. For one thing they allow me to expand my vocabulary in ways that regular dictionaries just don’t allow, or at least make a lot more difficult because, even when regular dictionaries include slang terms, they’re buried among all sorts of normal, boring words. When I saw the new Routledge Dictionary of [...]
It’s not been a great week. Sometimes there’s nothing for it but a little unrepentant silliness, with a dash of hope thrown in. With that in mind, enjoy this clip. And if you don’t like it, please don’t fetchez le vache. Merci.
(Photo credit: Angel Craddock) –Anne Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of Our House - July 10th, 1666″
“You’re odd-I-see, true to your name!”–from The OdysseyÂ
There’s a story I heard several years ago, probably in college where I was steeped in misinformation, that the word “kangaroo†came from the Aboriginal for “I don’t knowâ€. The way it was told to me, English explorers (or settlers, or prisoners) pointed to kangaroos and asked an Aboriginal man, “What are those called?” And [...] |
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