Books & Poetry

Are computer games a literary genre?

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:13 -0400

GUARDIAN : Sci-fi has a nobler literary tradition than you might think. Doris Lessing, Iain Banks trading as Iain M Banks and Toby Litt have all turned their hand to it... READ MORE

A Familiar Refrain

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:50:11 -0400

MITALI'S FIRE ESCAPE : Why are children's books still so white?" we asked on the Fire Escape last year... READ MORE

Kureishi on the Rushdie affair

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:50:11 -0400

PROSPECT MAGAZINE : Twenty years after The Satanic Verses, Anshuman A Mondal talks to young British Muslims about faith and politics... READ MORE

In times of trouble, fiction thrives

polymeme — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:33:30 -0400

PHILLY : No, Raymond Chandler didn't snap out that advice. And many Philadelphia-area fiction writers plainly started on their literary tasks long before 401(k)s began dropping by half... READ MORE

Why the Plath Legacy Lives

polymeme — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:33:30 -0400

ROOMFORDEBATE.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM : It has been 46 years since Sylvia Plath gassed herself to death in her kitchen, and it was worldwide news when her daughter Frieda Hughes announced that Plath’s 47-year-old son... READ MORE

Turning men into Page Turners

polymeme — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:33:30 -0400

GUARDIAN : It has long been accepted by publishers that women buy – and read – more books than men... READ MORE

How Science Fiction Found Religion

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:20:07 -0400

CITY JOURNAL : There is a young man, different from other young men. Ancient prophecies foretell his coming, and he performs miraculous feats... READ MORE

Defeating Post-Tenure Review

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:12 -0400

WWW.INSIDEHIGHERED.COM : Who reviews the performance of tenured faculty members? Can such reviews have teeth without interfering with the principles of tenure... READ MORE

Oxford Literary Festival: George Orwell's son speaks for the first time about his father

polymeme — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:04 -0400

TIMESONLINE | ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT : What would it have been like to be brought up by George Orwell? Pretty grim, you might think. But you would be wrong. In June 1944... READ MORE

Why books won't change your life

polymeme — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:58:04 -0400

GUARDIAN : There are certain turns of phrase in the modern reviewers' arsenal that are guaranteed to turn the stomach of any reader... READ MORE