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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Wha-?

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The position of the Department for Education is that while it would like to see a library in all schools , "this should be a local d...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Found in Translation

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“I read foreign novels because they’re better,” was a remark I began to expect (surprisingly, a senior member of the Dutch Fund for Litera...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

perfective vision

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I call it the pederasty of autobiography; the older self actually loves the younger self in a way the younger self never could have felt o...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

over the rainbow

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1. We tried to follow Y Combinator’s advice to minimize time fundraising and get back to work. Our goal was not to die from lack of fundi...
Friday, May 25, 2012

--and there's more!

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Anne Strainchamps interviewed me a couple of weeks ago for "To the best of our knowledge," for Wisconsin Public Radio, as part of ...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Dead Sea Scrolls

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HT Languagehat, a fabulous site with Digital Dead Sea Scrolls.  Given that a typical volume of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert costs £100...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

modern times

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But, more than the data-compressed brevity and just-the-facts utilitarianism forced on us by our times, it's the etherealization of w...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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