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Books RSS FeedsSpeaking the Unspeakable (Jonte-Pace) - Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Diane E. Jonte-Pace (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)...Feed Source: ark.cdlib.org The Country of Memory (Tai) - The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Hue-Tam Ho Tai (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Tauber) - Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Alfred I. Tauber (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China (Harrell) - Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Stevan Harrell (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Cloudy Jewel (Hill) - Cloudy Jewel (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor (stable link)... The Tryst (Hill) - The Tryst (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (stable link)... A Chautauqua Idyl (Hill) - A Chautauqua Idyl (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1887), by Grace Livingston Hill (stable link)... Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (Defoe) - Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Atherton Aitken, illust. by J. B. Yeats (page images at Google)... The Search (Hill) - The Search (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by Grace Livingston Hill (Gutenberg text)... The Vatican Library (Tisserant) - The Vatican Library: Two Papers (Jersey City: Snead and Co., 1929), by Eugène Tisserant and Theodore Wesley Koch (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The London Art of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant (Farley) - The London Art of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant (12th edition; London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman, 1811), by John Farley (multiple formats at archive.org)... Hunger in America 2006 (Cohen) - Hunger in America 2006: National Report Prepared for America's Second Harvest (2006), by Rhoda Cohen, Myoung Kim, and James C. Ohls (PDF with commentary at hungerinamerica.org)... Hunger in America 2001 (Kim) - Hunger in America 2001: National Report Prepared for America's Second Harvest (2001), by Myoung Kim, James C. Ohls, and Rhoda Cohen (PDF at mathematica-mpr.com)... The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science (Bucaille) - The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge, by Maurice Bucaille, trans. by Alastair D. Pannell (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... The Life of Muhammad (Haykal) - The Life of Muhammad, by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... The Status of Women in Islam (Qaradawi) - The Status of Women in Islam (ca.1998), by Yusuf Qaradawi, trans. by Muhammad Mustafa Geme'ah (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) (Mubarakfuri) - Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar): Memoirs of the Noble Prophet, by Safi al-Rahman Mubarakfuri (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... Immigration and the Political Economy of Home (Buff) - Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Rachel Buff (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Crimes Against Nature (Jacoby) - Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Karl Jacoby (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia (Gregor) - Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (Sparkes) - Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (6th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1977), by Brian A. Sparkes and Lucy Talcott, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Thompson) - The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Athenian Citizen (Lang) - The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)... Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (Thompson) - Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (4th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1974, c1959), by Dorothy Burr Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (Watts) - The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)... After Death, or Letters from Julia (Stead) - After Death, or Letters from Julia: A Personal Narrative (fourth edition; Chicago: Progressive Thinker Pub. House, 1910), by W. T. Stead (stable link)... Selected works (Cohen) - Selected works, by Colin Cohen (HTML at cc600.com and blogspot.com)... The Making of the Million (Ackworth) - The Making of the Million: Tales of the Twentieth Century Fund, by John Ackworth (HTML with commentary in the UK)... The Battle-Day, and Other Poems (Jones) - The Battle-Day, and Other Poems (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1855), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)... On Democracy (Blackie) - On Democracy: A Lecture Delivered to the Working Men's Institute, Edinburgh (1867), by John Stuart Blackie (HTML with commentary in the UK)... Democracy Vindicated (Jones) - Democracy Vindicated: A Lecture Delivered to the Edinburgh Working Men's Institute (1867), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)... The Slaveholder's War (Jones) - The Slaveholder's War: A Lecture (1863), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (Jones) - Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Selected works and commentary (Jones) - Selected works and commentary, by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Communism (Cronin) - Communism: Threat to Freedom (New York: Paulist Press, c1962), by John F. Cronin (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Cuban Scene (Ripoll) - The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (Tabart) - Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1814), ed. by Benjamin Tabart (multiple formats at archive.org)... My Bird and My Dog - My Bird and My Dog: A Tale for Youth (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1816) (multiple formats at archive.org)... Jane Goes Out w' the Scouts (Drucker) - Jane Goes Out w' the Scouts (1980), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Just As (Drucker) - Just As (1983), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Kidz (Drucker) - Kidz (1979), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Self and Community in the City (Krase) - Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)... Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (Sankaracarya) - Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Sankaracarya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... The Wisdom of the Talmud (Bokser) - The Wisdom of the Talmud (New York: Philosophical Library, c1951), by Ben Zion Bokser (HTML at sacred-texts.com)... Genji Monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu) - Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Suematsu Kencho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... Burr (Vidal) - Burr, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Empire (Vidal) - Empire, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Hollywood (Vidal) - Hollywood, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Lincoln (Vidal) - Lincoln, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... In Seven Stages (Bisland) - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Elizabeth Bisland (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)... Biography of a Spaniel (Showes) - Biography of a Spaniel: To Which is Annexed The Idiot (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, 1803), by Mrs. Showes, illust. by William Hopwood and James Hopwood (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Bishop's Candlesticks (McKinnel) - The Bishop's Candlesticks: A Play in One Act (London and New York: S. French, c1908), by Norman McKinnel, contrib. by Victor Hugo (multiple formats at archive.org)... Selected works and commentary (Eagle) - Selected works and commentary, by Chester Eagle (PDF files with commentary at Trojan Press)... Victoria Challis (Eagle) - Victoria Challis: A Novel, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Didgeridoo (Eagle) - Didgeridoo: Some Histories, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Waking into Dream (Eagle) - Waking into Dream, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... The Garden Gate (Eagle) - The Garden Gate, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Hail and Farewell! An Evocation of Gippsland (Eagle) - Hail and Farewell! An Evocation of Gippsland, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Janus (Eagle) - Janus: Travel Pieces, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Melba (Eagle) - Melba: An Australian City, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Wainwright's Mountain (Eagle) - Wainwright's Mountain, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... House of Music (Eagle) - House of Music: A Suite of Stories, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Who Could Love the Nightingale? (Eagle) - Who Could Love the Nightingale?, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Oztralia (Eagle) - Oztralia, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Mapping the Paddocks (Eagle) - Mapping the Paddocks, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty (Eagle) - Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... The Wainwright Operas (Eagle) - The Wainwright Operas, by Chester Eagle (PDF files with commentary at Trojan Press)... At the Window (Eagle) - At the Window, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Love in the Age of Wings and Other Operas (Eagle) - Love in the Age of Wings and Other Operas, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Four Faces, Wobbly Mirror (Eagle) - Four Faces, Wobbly Mirror, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Surviving Through the Days (Luthin) - Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs: A California Indian Reader (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Herbert W. Luthin (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Voting at the Political Fault Line (Cain) - Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Bruce E. Cain and Elisabeth R. Gerber (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Hollywood Quarterly (Smoodin) - Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Eric Loren Smoodin and Ann Martin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... The Longest Night (Jacobson) - The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Arthur J. Jacobson and Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Cool Conduct (Lethen) - Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Helmut Lethen, trans. by Don Reneau (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Pollution in a Promised Land (Tal) - Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Alon Tal (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... High Anxieties (Brodie) - High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Reflections of an American Composer (Berger) - Reflections of an American Composer (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Arthur Berger (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Immanent Visitor (Sáenz) - Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (in English and Spanish; Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Jaime Sáenz, trans. by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... The Affectionate Brothers (Hofland) - The Affectionate Brothers: A Tale (2 volumes; London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1816), by Mrs. Hofland (stable link)... Royal English Bookbindings (Davenport) - Royal English Bookbindings (1896), by Cyril Davenport (illustrated HTML at aboutbookbinding.com)... Classical Telugu Poetry (Narayanaravu) - Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Velceru Narayanaravu and David Dean Shulman (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Narrowing the Nation's Power (Noonan) - Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides With the States (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by John Thomas Noonan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Learning From Experience (Moya) - Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... A Voice From Another World (Lach-Szyrma) - A Voice From Another World (Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1874), by W. S. Lach-Szyrma (page images at Google; US access only)... Myths and Legends of Christmastide (Herrick) - Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)... The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars (Gratacap) - The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars: Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd (New York: Brentano's, 1903), by L. P. Gratacap, contrib. by G. V. Schiaparelli (multiple formats at archive.org)... Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze (White) - Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze (2007), by Thayer White (HTML with commentary at helpself.com)... The Color Bind (Chávez) - The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lydia Chávez (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Gadamer's Repercussions (Krajewski) - Gadamer's Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), ed. by Bruce Krajewski (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... On Human Nature (Burke) - On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Kenneth Burke, ed. by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... In Other Los Angeleses (Cheng) - In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Meiling Cheng (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Frontiers and Ghettos (Ron) - Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by James Ron (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... American Sensations (Streeby) - American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Singular Women (Frederickson) - Singular Women: Writing the Artist (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003), ed. by Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Silence at Boalt Hall (Guerrero) - Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Andrea Guerrero (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... La Lucha for Cuba (De La Torre) - La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Miguel A. De La Torre (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... The New German Cinema (Flinn) - The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Caryl Flinn (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Inside the American Couple (Yalom) - Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Marilyn Yalom and Laura L. Carstensen (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Sinister House (Hall) - Sinister House (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leland Hall, illust. by Haydon Jones (page images at Google; US access only)... Socrates in the Agora (Lang) - Socrates in the Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1978), by Mabel L. Lang (page images at Google)... How We Spent the Autumn (Wallace-Dunlop) - How We Spent the Autumn: or, Wandering in Brittany (London: R. Bentley, 1860), by M. A. Wallace-Dunlop and Rosalind Harriet Maria Wallace-Dunlop Inverarity (page images at Google)... A Year in China; and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida (Williams) - A Year in China; and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864), by Martha Noyes Williams, contrib. by William Cullen Bryant (page images at Google)... Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California (Anderson) - Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California (Boston: American tract society, c1865), by Mary E. Anderson (page images at Google)... Untrodden Paths in Roumania (Walker) - Untrodden Paths in Roumania (London: Chapman and Hall, 1888), by Mary A. Walker (page images at Google; US access only)... At the Ghost Hour (Heyse) - At the Ghost Hour: The House of the Unbelieving Thomas (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1894), by Paul Heyse, trans. by Frances A. Van Santford, illust. by Alice C. Morse (page images at Google)... Views in Central Abyssinia (Veitch) - Views in Central Abyssinia: With Portraits of the Natives of the Galla Tribes (London: J. C. Hotten, 1868), by Sophie F. F. Veitch (stable link)... On Trek in the Transvaal (Roche) - On Trek in the Transvaal: or, Over Berg and Veldt in South Africa (third edition; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1878), by Harriet Ann Roche (stable link)... A Girl's Wanderings in Hungary (Browning) - A Girl's Wanderings in Hungary (second edition; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1897), by H. Ellen Browning (stable link)... Sarah de Berenger (Ingelow) - Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1879), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... A Sister's Bye-Hours (Ingelow) - A Sister's Bye-Hours, by Jean Ingelow (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Don John (Ingelow) - Don John: A Story (2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1882), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Fated to be Free (Ingelow) - Fated to be Free: A Novel (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1875), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... John Jerome (Ingelow) - John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1886), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Poems (Ingelow) - Poems (first series, 20th edition; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1877), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Off the Skelligs (Ingelow) - Off the Skelligs: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Stories Told to a Child (Ingelow) - Stories Told to a Child, by Jean Ingelow (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Studies for Stories, From Girls' Lives (Ingelow) - Studies for Stories, From Girls' Lives, by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... A Story of Doom, and Other Poems (Ingelow) - A Story of Doom, and Other Poems (third edition; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868), by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Wonder-Box Tales (Ingelow) - Wonder-Box Tales (New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., c1902), by Jean Ingelow, illust. by Diantha W. Horne (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Selected works and commentary (Ingelow) - Selected works and commentary, by Jean Ingelow (HTML in the UK)... Chateau and Country Life in France (Waddington) - Chateau and Country Life in France (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1909), by Mary Alsop King Waddington (multiple formats at archive.org)... China to Peru over the Andes (Vincent) - China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)... Eastern Life and Scenery, With Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Roumania (Walker) - Eastern Life and Scenery, With Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Roumania (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1886), by Mary A. Walker (stable link)... Modern Science and Materialism (Elliot) - Modern Science and Materialism (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), by Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot (multiple formats at archive.org)... Old Tracks and New Landmarks (Walker) - Old Tracks and New Landmarks: Wayside Sketches in Crete, Macedonia, Mitylene, etc. (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1897), by Mary A. Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)... Voices From the Silent Land (Williams) - Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (1853), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)... Italy (Drucker) - Italy (1980), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Shinran and His Work (Lloyd) - Shinran and His Work (1910), by Arthur Lloyd (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... Ida Waugh's Alphabet Book (Blanchard) - Ida Waugh's Alphabet Book: For Little Ones Who, If They Look, Will Find their Letters in This Book (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888), by Amy Ella Blanchard, illust. by Ida Waugh (page images at Florida)... Someone to Disturb · Hilary Mantel: A Memoir - In those days, the doorbell didn't ring often, and if it did I would draw back into the body of the house. Only at a persistent ring would I creep over the carpets, as if there were someone to disturb, and make my way to the front door with its spyhole. We were big on bolts and shutters, deadlocks and mortises, safety chains and windows that were high and barred. Through the spyhole I saw a distraught man in a crumpled, silver-grey suit: thirties, Asian. He had dropped back from the door, and was looking about him, at the closed and locked door opposite, and up the dusty marble stairs. He patted his pockets, took out a balled-up handkerchief, and rubbed it across his face. He looked so fraught that his sweat could have been tears. I opened the door.... Caretaker/Pallbearer · James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home - Where Norman Mailer set out to bend the future with his telepathic powers and the Beats sought to hot-wire the American psyche (at the risk of frying their own circuits), Updike wrote as if he were doing fine draftsmanship under a cone of light, honouring creation and the American plenty. He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather. Apparent lack of inner struggle and purring efficiency made it possible to take him for granted. 'No one has ever sat around worrying about Updike, the way one apparently worried about Wolfe and Fitzgerald and Hemingway, as if they were all soloing the Atlantic with each book, to see whether he's lost his touch or his nerve or his fastball,' Wilfrid Sheed wrote in Essays in Disguise. 'We know damn well he'll have his touch this time and next: we just want to see whether we like what he's done with it.'... Is it Art? · John Lanchester on video games - There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Books, films, TV, dance, theatre, music, painting, photography, sculpture, all have publics which either are or aren't interested in them, but at least know that these forms exist, that things happen in them in which people who are interested in them are interested. They are all part of our current cultural discourse. Video games aren't. Their invisibility is interesting in itself, and also allows interesting things to happen in games under the cultural radar.... If Gaza falls . . . · Sara Roy - Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.... Among the Graves · Thomas Laqueur: Naming the Dead - Stonewall Jackson, the deeply neurotic but irresistibly romantic, swashbuckling Confederate commander, thought that the great and swift destruction of life and property seen in the American Civil War was the essence of war generally. But this war was not swift. It was long and gruelling: 425 men, on average, died every day for 1458 days. And like the First World War, the Civil War got bloodier and more destructive as it ground inconclusively on. Five of its six costliest battles, with casualties in the tens of thousands on each side, took place after April 1863, roughly the war's midpoint. It ended, as the Second World War ended, in an epic struggle for the enemy's capital. A century and a half later one can still see the miles of ramparts at Petersburg and Richmond; the crater blasted by Union miners in an attempt to breach Confederate defences is still there. Casualties of this final battle were more than 60,000.... Diary · Tariq Ali: Murder in the Family - If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin's new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist's friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita's husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family home. Her brothers then found Gentile and chopped his body into pieces. Márquez blamed the socio-moral dictatorship of the Catholic Church.... Lady Talky · Alison Light on Lydia Lopokova - Why does she want the red shoes? She wants to be special and she wants to be looked at. In Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale, Karen, a peasant girl, goes barefoot in summer and in winter wears wooden clogs that rub her feet raw, but the mirror tells her she's lovely and she thinks that wearing the red shoes will make her feel like a princess. Like selfish Heidi and tomboy Katy, Karen is a mid-19th century girl crippled by egotism. The shoes force her to dance non-stop and to display herself 'wherever proud and vain children live'. Though it seems simply a punitive response to female narcissism, this is a Christian morality tale intended to warn against the sin of self-love. Karen is cast out of her community and her church; she has her feet hacked off, and the story ends with her repentance. What we remember, though, is not the final image of her blissful reunion with God but the red shoes, with the little feet still in them, going on dancing. Shoes were a homely and powerful symbo... America Concedes · Patrick Cockburn - On 27 November the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favour of a security agreement with the US under which its 150,000 troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year and from all of Iraq by 31 December 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks' time. Private security companies will lose legal immunity. US military operations will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. No US military bases will remain after the last American troops leave in 2011 and in the interim the US military is banned from carrying out attacks on other countries from within Iraq.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Copyright © 2009, JayKay's Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |