'Books' Category
Science and Literature
In his article May 11 article for the Boston Globe titled Measure for Measure, Johnathan Gottschall writes:
We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate surer and firmer knowledge about the things we study. While most other fields gradually accumulate new and durable understanding about the world, the great minds of literary studies have, over the […]Benazir Bhutto’s book, women, Islam, Pakistan, etc.
The Australian published an excerpt from Benazir Bhutto’s book yesterday in which she speaks of starting college in the US in 1969, where she experienced firsthand the rights and freedoms that Americans took for granted. She also arrived at a time when feminism was finally gaining some ground in the US. What struck me though, […]
The price of happiness
In his article In Praise of Melancholy, Eric G Wilson writes:
I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is […]The best review of Kahlil Gibran ever
Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,
And weary grows the mind doomed to read it.
And it just gets better. This was published in November last year, but it deserves to be referenced again and again. Via the Little Professor.Armistead Maupin in Brisbane
Armistead Maupin was here and I missed him. *sniff*. Buuut, thanks to the wonders of teh tubes, here’s a link to his talk at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival as broadcast on the Book Show on ABC Radio. This’ll take you the page about the talk where you can either listen to it or download it […]
Goths in books
Goth is easy enough to dis, what with the spooky stuff it seems to entail, but studies of late seem show it in a much more positive light, funny as that might sound. I stumbled across this review in the Chronicle of Higher Education while browsing through Arts and Letters Daily. Professor Mikita Brottman reviews […]
A review
Some time before the summer between eighth and ninth grade, I started to volunteer at my junior high school library. I shelved books, checked books out and in, sorted index cards, and did all the other things you do to help keep a library running. In exchange, I got first dibs on all the books […]
The realist interviewed
Oh this is exciting. Dawn interviewed my baby brother author Ilhan Niaz for its weekly ‘Books and Authors’ supplement. Read the interview here.
Ilhan’s description of the book:
“The first chapters of the book deal with the subcontinent and describe the major empires that ruled the region. I started with the Harappan civilisation, moving on to the Guptas, […]Khalid Hasan on An Inquiry into the Culture of Power of the Subcontinent
Khalid Hasan reviews Ilhan’s book in the Friday Times. He doesn’t comment on it too much, choosing instead to quote from it, but his point about Pakistan’s departure from its original purpose or the point of its creation is well made.
Good and Bad
1. I must be doing something right if the references in the books I’m wading through are suddenly to books I’ve already read.
2. Why are journals so hard to locate?