Le Tigre: A Little Jolt of Disco/Electoclash Dadaist Aerobics

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This guerilla Le Tigre video , done by someone in France (and presumably not the band itself ) is too damn dada. One wants to laugh, one wan...

NYPL Image Archive Free and Online

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Through the NYT , I find that the New York Public Library has made hundreds of thousands of images in its archival book collection freely av...

Orality vs. Text: Hiking, Writing, Blogging, Podcasting...

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Our friend Elck, at Vernacular Body, has an intriguing post on orality vs. textuality in storytelling. Written text unfolds in space. It...

Open Access to Academic Journals?

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There was a conference at Southampton University in England this past week on providing open access to scholarly information over the inter...

Take 'em down

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I'm with the NYT : the Ten Commandments should be taken down from the courthouse displays in Texas and Kentucky. It looks like it will a...

Ankle Monitors or Jail?

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Which would you take, the electronic ankle monitor or jail for three to six months? As much as it sounds crazy, I would probably prefer the ...

An Indian Speculative Fiction Writer: Vandana Singh

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Vandana Singh's story "Delhi," from the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (remember M...

Snow object

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I know what what it looks like. The resemblance really wasn't intentional. We just piled snow for awhile, and this is what we ended up m...

On Snow

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The line between middle class American childhood and adulthood can be boiled down to a simple distinction: children play in the snow, adults...

Authors in exile -- from themselves

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Though the latest biography of D.H. Lawrence doesn't seem like it's anything too too shocking, I was struck by the following paragra...

Condi's fashion statement

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Condi's fashion statement, in the Washington Post . The message: I won't stop at Secretary of State.

Congrats to Dilip D'Souza

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Via Locana , I learn that Dilip D'Souza , blogger and journalist extraordinaire, has won the Outlook-Picador Prize for a non-fiction bo...

The Strange Case of "Kurban Said"

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Who the heck is Kurban Said? Friday is my non-teaching day, so I went down to Montclair to check out what I think is the nearest used bookst...

"Discover the Network"

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Michael Berube has been having a bit of a duel with David Horowitz over Horowitz's goofy (but evil) "Discover the Network" w...

"Our Godless Constitution," and the Treaty with Tripoli

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Brooke Allen, at the Nation, has an essay on the Godlessness of the U.S. Constitution and the founding fathers. It's essentially a remi...