Archive for the ‘Books and Literary Things’ Category

february @ the Getty

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

February@ the Getty Museum:don't miss..( it's free!)The Mediaeval Bookshelf: From Romance to Astronomy - ( on from January 29th to April 9th 2006)A collection of illuminated manuscripts and books from the 13th to the 15th centuries on a wide range of subjects - including chivalry, fables, science and philosophy. Bibles ...

omniglot

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

omniglot: a guide to written language. An interesting site. I found it while I was browsing for information on the occitan language { Provençal is a dialect of Occitan}

Fat and Feminism?

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse.An interesting analysis of ...

conspiracy: theories

Monday, November 14th, 2005

conspiracy theories: what fun. ( i fancied a breath of fresh air after this bout of attempted sectarian stirring-up) Secret societies, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, kabbalah, yum yum. of course, Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum is a must on any conspiracy theory fan's reading list. the quest for secret knowledge ...

bonjour tristesse

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Beautiful and haunting; full of pathos. bonjour tristesse by françoise sagan: written over the summer of 1953. autobiography: "Avec mon meilluer souvenir" published 1984

Prospect magazine and ” Top Intellectuals”

Monday, October 31st, 2005

so - the votes were for Noam Chomsky as "The World's Top Public Intellectual". that's great - { Umberto Eco came in at no. 2 by the way - see the list of full results of the Prospect global intellectuals poll} - and Chomsky is definitely a ...

decline and fall : evelyn waugh

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh. 1928 His first novel.