Click here to read “Border Crossings,” a review of Geoffrey Hartman’s The Third Pillar by Monica Osborne on June 20, 2012.
Category: Books
Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s Ulysses
Click here to read “Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s Ulysses” by Maria Popova from Brain Pickings on June 19, 2012.
In 1935, American publisher George Macey offered the great Henri Matisse $5,000 to create as many etchings as this budget would afford for a special illustrated edition of Ulysses.
James Joyce’s Democracy
Click here to read “James Joyce’s Democracy” by Frank Delaney’s blog, The Writer’s Life on June 18, 2012.
Saturday, 16 June 2012, dawned sunny and clear. There you have a sentence that Joyce might have written in the “namby-pamby marmalady jammy drawersy” Nausicaa chapter of Ulysses. Nevertheless, that’s what it was like on Delancey Place, Philadelphia, where the brotherly love overflowed and cascaded down the tall columns of the monumental, long-dead author.
Economics and Morality
Bloomsday is James Joyce’s Saint Patrick’s Day for Summer
The Language of Exile
Review – Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought, edited by Lewis Aron & Libby Henrik
Slavoj Žižek: ‘Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots’
Click here to read: “Slavoj Žižek: ‘Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'” by Decca Aitkenhead from The Gaurdian on June 10, 2012.
A genius with the answers to the financial crisis? Or the Borat of philosophy? The cultural theorist talks about love, sex and why nothing is ever what it appears to be.
Wake-Up Call
Click here to read: “Wake-Up Call,” a review from Laurence Scott of Missing Out by Adam Phillips, from The Financial Times on June 9, 2012.
We desire to be elsewhere, new and improved, today being never enough.
For another review of Missing Out click here to read “Missing Out by Adam Phillips: Review” by Rowland Manthorpe from The Telegraph on June 4, 2012.
