At the library last Tuesday, I came across Dwight Macdonald‘s article Amateur Journalism; Notes of an American in London, published in November 1956 in Encounter magazine. I said I’d blog about this, because so much of Macdonald’s article resonated with blogging issues. Here are some excerpts (and keep in mind this is 1956): [American journalism […]
I haven’t seen Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Kill Bill, and if I did, I might really hate it since gory films creep me out. (Besides, I’m also not at all sure I can forgive Uma Thurman for her horrible re-creation of Emma Peel; man, Thurman stinks.) But I liked this review by Graham Barnfield in […]
Fascinating review, Hooked on self-esteem, by Jennie Bristow in Spiked online, a London-based site I just found via Arts & Letters Daily. The review is of a book by Frank Furedi, Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age. More than just kicking therapy culture’s butt, Furedi (judging from this review) goes after the social […]
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