Essays
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Every once in a while (not often), scientists discover that one of their number has published false data or has plagiarized someone else's work. This is always deeply embarrassing, especially ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Joseph Roth [Joseph Roth]

IV I think of the seventy-two-year-old Jew forced to climb to the top of that fireman’s ladder. No foreign correspondent was present. And if one had been, he wouldn’t have ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Toby Faber [Toby Faber]

T. S. Eliot to Charles Monteith, 17 November 1952 I could arrange lunch during the following week – I am pretty well engaged up till then – but as I ...
( Category: Strings March 22,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John Gray

HUMAN REDUNDANCY AND THE CYBORG ECONOMY The pioneers of modern robotics, Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, were both involved in the Manhattan Project which produced the atomic bomb. Wiener ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Shields [Shields, David; Cooperman, Elizabeth]

Elizabeth Cooperman Creation 8.Trick Story The world is no longer speaking to you. It’s high time you got tricky, wily, clever–in order to deal with life. Rick Moody: Primary Sources ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Camille Paglia [Paglia, Camille]

April 26. Sukiya, the Japanese word for teahouse, means “the abode of emptiness.” It uses rugged, hard, deliberately irregular wood, rubbed by hand. Irregularity of this kind is so un-Western. ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seamus Heaney

The Sense of Place I think there are two ways in which place is known and cherished, two ways which may be complementary but which are just as likely to ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Alan Garner [Alan Garner]

* * * 1 This lecture was delivered at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on the theme of “Science Fiction at Large”, on 26 February 1975. 8 Potter Thompson ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-21 | Author:Lydia Lunch

ten HUBERT SELBY JR.: THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE Born in 1928 in the badlands of Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. stomped a new asshole in the face of literature ...
( Category: Punk March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Matt Zoller Seitz

* * * 1 “Babylon” (S1E6). 2 The sight of Don Draper backstage at a Rolling Stones concert trying to hire the band to appear in a Heinz ad expresses ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michel de Montaigne [Montaigne, Michel de]

“O, father, is it then to be conceiv’d That any of these spirits, so sublime, Should hence to the celestial regions climb, And thence return to earth to reassume Their ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Carla Bergman

* * * Excerpted from I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya. Copyright © 2018 by Vivek Shraya. Reprinted by permission of PenguinCanada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada ...
( Category: Feminist March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:George Eliot

Notes on Form in Art (1868) This essay, from a notebook now in the possession of Yale University Library, was first published in 1963 by Thomas Pinney (who refers us ...
( Category: Victorian March 21,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1992-08-22 | Author:Camille Paglia

JUNK BONDS AND CORPORATE RAIDERS: ACADEME IN THE HOUR OF THE WOLF I On the back of David M. Halperin’s One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, a series of American academics ...
( Category: Essays March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-15 | Author:Dorothy Wordsworth & Pamela Woof [Wordsworth, Dorothy]

* March 1st. We rose early. A thick fog obscured the distant prospect entirely, but the shapes of the near trees and the dome of the wood dimly seen and ...
( Category: Essays March 21,2020 )