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Job's Comforters
Adam Phillips reviews Gary Greenberg's MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
books  reviews  essays  from instapaper
may 2010 by amy
Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”
writing  writers  essays 
march 2009 by amy
Books | Bean and gone
In her latest book, At Large and At Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist, Anne Fadiman turns again to the fertile tradition of the familiar essay, charting obsessions from Charles Lamb to Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip...
coffee  writing  essays 
november 2007 by amy
Moving Beyond Kyoto - New York Times
by Al Gore: WE — the human species — have arrived at a moment of decision. It is unprecedented and even laughable for us to imagine that we could actually make a conscious choice as a species, but that is nevertheless the challenge that is before us.
environment  global_warming  essays 
july 2007 by amy
Through a Glass, Darkly (Harpers.org)
How the Christian right is reimagining U.S. history
usa  religion  politics  history  essays 
january 2007 by amy
Survivor: The White House Edition: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
As with Vietnam, so with Iraq: in the last act of a failed war the backstage action is about saving reputations, not lives.
politics  usa  essays 
december 2006 by amy
Leggo My Ego
Google Print and the other culture war.
search  google  culture  essays 
october 2006 by amy
The last refuge of the outrageous | Books | The Australian
Government attempts to legislate virtue are like a noose around the necks of fiction writers. Lionel Shriver is appalled and claims the right for her characters to offend
books  writing  law  essays 
october 2006 by amy
Yes, You Are
So much for the dress code.
feminism  gender  society  essays 
september 2006 by amy
No Tolls on The Internet
Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology..
law  society  technology  usa  business  politics  essays 
june 2006 by amy
In prose of science - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au
IAN MCEWAN appeals for a living tradition in science as in literature, to guide our progress from the past through to the future.
science  writing  essays  tbr 
may 2006 by amy
New Statesman - The dying animal
In the post-religious world of Philip Roth's fiction, humans do not have immortal souls. Death and desire is all we are. A S Byatt on a brief and bleak morality tale for our times
books  reviews  essays 
april 2006 by amy
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005
"WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" Also: http://snipurl.com/kov7
philosophy  science  tbr  essays 
december 2005 by amy
The Writing Life
On the novelist's obligation to employ politics and poetry. - by Walter Mosley
writing  politics  society  essays 
december 2005 by amy

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