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Augie March’s Christmas
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Marianne Faithfull’s chant of resistance
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After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, business as usual?
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Amnesia: hackers and subversion in Australia
Note: There is an email link embedded within this post, please visit this post to email it. Amnesia begins with a hacker known as Angel. She releases a computer worm which opens the gates of...
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Does Brokeback Mountain need a happy ending?
In a recent interview in The Paris Review, Annie Proulx said that she regretted writing Brokeback Mountain. She said she wished she’d never written the story, and that it had “just been the cause of...
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Catch-22 in the 21st Century
Although set on a US Air force base on a small island in the Mediterranean during World War Two, Catch-22 is a satirical attack on the workings of modern bureaucracy that is still relevant today. It...
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Harvest : the bitter fruits of xenophobia
In Harvest, Jim Crace explores what happens in an isolated feudal village when a trio of outsiders set up camp on the common land and attempt to claim squatters’ rights. The villagers destroy the...
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Flann O’Brien and The Hard Life
Just after St. Patrick’s Day is a good time to have a laugh reading Flann O’Brien, pseudonym of Brian O Nolan, one of the most satirical Irish writers ever. In the late 1930s and throughout the 40s,...
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The haunting Kiss of the Fur Queen
Sometimes you read a story so beautiful it stays in your head for days, and you keep going back to it, trying to understand how it got such a hold on your imagination. Kiss of the Fur Queen is that...
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Derek Walcott on CLR James and cricket.
In his collection of essays, What the Twilight Says, Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott discusses, among other things, fellow writers of the Caribbean, including the Marxist historian CLR James. In...
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