By tom | February 5, 2009
In part as a welcome to a newly-found, previously long-lost lost one, I decided to look up some other, old and familiar, faces from the past. It’s interesting to see them in internet garb. Norman Geras: I remember a particularly slim volume which managed to elude me for the entire duration of my first term [...]
You know (of course) that I have attempted several life audits; in fact, one is found on the this page, in a feature called “The sequence of a life in 17 sentences”. My last effort to “look back”, at 2005, floundered on the rocks of futility; not the futility of words, nor the lack of [...]
By tom | October 17, 2008
Benjamin was right; this drew my attention as I was in the midst of re-aligning my library. It was sent to me by a close friend – since disappeared – shortly after Professor Rose’s passing. It was read once, perhaps twice, and filed away until last night. I thought I ought to share it. Click [...]
Jonathan Glancey writes passionately about Selexyz Dominicanen in The Guardian’s very own ShopTalk section. The bookshop is integrated within the architectural frame of a 13th century Dominican Church, with its enormous bookcase a commanding presence and counter-point to its now secularised altar. Seldom have the twin pursuits – truthfulness and faith – come face to [...]
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Quite a coincidence. I was flying out to Surabaya the other week and picked up a book by Eric A. Johnson & Karl-Heinz Reuband. Not the usual airport fare, I agree, but pickings were slim. Do compare the cover of their book (What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany) with [...]
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I’m not sure what steered me initially away, and brought me to what I hope to be a more permanent return to the site. Things change, I suppose. I used to subscribe to the Times Literary Supplement; each new issue invariably arrived on a Tuesday, and it would be the focal point until, once religiously [...]
By tom | January 14, 2008
The genius behind / in front of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine, has a site at www.beingcharliekaufman.com Go to him. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.writing.adancingstar.com%2F2008%2Fbeing-charlie-kaufmann%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Being+Charlie+Kaufmann’; addthis_pub = ”;
You know how it is sometimes. You see her; she catches your eye. Sometimes it’s hard to keep your resolve. Soon enough, you’ve taken her home and do what comes naturally. Then you realise that you’ve done this before. Years ago. And it wasn’t even that great the first time around. So you bring her [...]
