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One hundred posts, but many more kudos to Annalisa Piras and Bill Emmott for...
As far as we can tell, Girlfriend in a Coma is as scrupulously factual as the finest old-fashioned print journalism. But it exploits special capacities of moving pictures to show us how the facts about...
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The Supreme who reads Proust to live by, and to understand his fellow...
‘Artistic people aren’t respected.’ We quoted someone to that effect a year ago – a close relation of someone else of strikingly conventional views, but unusually plain-spoken, who says frankly, ‘I...
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Humour does not travel well — not even in doing business — a fact that the...
Are human beings more or less likely to change our behaviour, customs and beliefs by being teased or mocked about them? And can we expect teasing about religion to cross yawning cultural gaps, when...
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Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo, Molière, and Carl Jung: where does a fearless –...
Inclusive, democratic media of this post-Gutenberg age are making it easier than ever before for the ‘creative being inside all of us’ to get out and do something. What effect is that going to have on...
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Carl Djerassi, exemplary forerunner of Post-Gutenberg Man
Recorded with sadness: Carl Djerassi, 29 October 1923 – 30 January 2015 In an unprecedented commemoration, in our experience, yesterday’s Guardian ran — in addition to a short obituary for the general...
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As great scientists frankly admit what they owe artists, should the income...
Better than setting up arts foundations and handing out grants, what if scientists were to make a sacred mission of looking for new ways to buy more work from artists of all descriptions? Employ more...
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Radically open — post-print — justice, streamed live from Britain’s Supreme...
After you have recovered from your astonishment at seeing the Kindle price for this book, Instrumental: A Memoir Of Madness, Medication And Music — £8.54, or $24.46 in the U.S., where you cannot buy a...
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Brink-of-summer break
Afflicted with an acute case of screaming eyeballs syndrome at post-Gutenberg — concentrated, migraine-like pain in eyes recovering from screen-gazing and months of disrupted sleep cycles — we must...
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… Imagine the happiness of sitting on a sun-dappled terrace in the French countryside, where you have had to reassure, say, the oldest person at your café table — your dear, monolingual English...
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. . . It should be of the pleasure of a poem to tell itself how it can. Robert Frost, 1939 . It is of the pleasure of this website to both make and point […]
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