Continuing apologies for the long absence. Part of this I can blame on a (deserved?) week of indolence, and part on my slow march through…
Compulsively readable, suitable for the dinner table, this camp novel is set largely in the dialog of two children, a young boy and his (presumably)…
I count this special issue of PhaenEx as a book because I think it’s the best anthology on animal theory I’ve yet read. Look here…
The various uses of GEWALT, which stands out because of Derrida’s commentary on Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt.” Most notably, it appears in the earliest…
An excellent anthology, marred, and this only a little, by an over-cautious essay on the ethics of animal euthanasia (or what Tom Regan called “well-intentioned…
“To love reason…-to crave the eternal when we are beginning to know ever more about the reality of our time, to want the clearest concept…
In the most recent Nation Corey Robbin (BC-CUNY History Prof) reviews Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, the collection Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in…
Here’s another story from the Aelred volume I’ve just read, here taken from his Life of Ninian: A certain man among the folk had a…
One of the books I picked up at Kzoo was an anthology of hagiography and miracles by Aelred of Rivaulx, The Lives of Northern Saints.…
Collection includes what’s probably Aelred’s best-known story, the miracle of the Nun of Watton. For my discussion, see here. What else? Precious few of what we…
