The Screaming Pope
Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Alice Munro
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Russ Scurr’s review of Alice Munro’s New Selected Stories in the TLS is itself something that aficionados of Alice Munro’s work should ru...
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Eye in the Sky
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In a recent story, the Times’ John Markoff described the creation of a fully automated data base which some weird sounding government agenc...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Cries and Whispers at BAM
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Last summer Carey Mulligan starred in what amounted to a staged reading of the Bergman script Through a Glass Darkly . The Flemish director’...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Diasporic Dining XXVIII: Feeling His Neurogastronomic Juices
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You’ve heard of neuroeconomics, neuro law and a host of other disciplines which try to isolate areas of the brain that are involved in under...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Letter from Riverhead
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A friend writes: “I just got back from a truly marvelous vacation and one that was unlike anything I’d experienced before. I went on a walki...
Monday, October 24, 2011
Delacroix, David and Revolutionary France
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Here’s a curatorial quote about Ingres’ Studies for the Turkish Bath (1859-60),one of the collection of drawings hanging in show Delacroix,...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
On Evil
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Rae Langton’s review of Terry Eagleton’s On Evil in the TLS (“ All About Death ,” TLS, 9/23/11) begins at the crossroads of Christian theolo...
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