Archive for July 25th, 2005
Monday July 25th 2005, 4:23 pm
Published authors offering their novels for download for free under creative commons licenses now includes Peter Watts. (I think I’ll wait for the Palm Reader version)
Also, Kelly Link
and the pioneer Cory Doctorow, whose books also happen to be very, very good. (Especially his new one, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.)
And, for the record, […]
Monday July 25th 2005, 4:01 pm
German expressionist movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari available for free, completely legal download from Internet Archive:
» Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1919-20)
Via Warren Ellis.com
Subjects: free, film
Monday July 25th 2005, 3:43 pm
Blog of a Bookslut writes:
Some Australians are taking on postmodernism.
The Weekend Australian revealed how postmodernism had infiltrated schools, often under the term Critical Literacy, raising fears that the secondary-school syllabus had been heavily politicised by the same theories that radicalised the universities in the late 1980s. The English critic Frank Kermode has argued that these […]
Monday July 25th 2005, 3:39 pm
The Kite Runner - Do I really have to read it? By Meghan O’Rourke
Slate reviews the Kite Runner
The tidy “I’m being healed” trajectory that animates Amir’s narrative is derived from a vocabulary of psychotherapeutic spiritual recovery that looks pretty threadbare when the predicament is the much messier one of a nation ravaged by political and […]
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