Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’ is one of the most original books I have ever read. I worked hard trying to write a decent review but I just couldn’t. So… just buy the book and read it. It will be money well spent.
From John Updike’s (The New Yorker) review: Haruki Murakami’s new novel, ‘Kafka […]

Why is America’s center of gravity to the right of Europe’s? Why are the American citizens so much more religious than are European citizens? How did the Republican party succeed in uniting libertarians, social conservatives, free-market businessmen and religious reactionaries under one platform?
“The Right Nation” (by J. Micklethwait & A. Wooldridge) is both a portrait […]

Dear friend, (This is a reply to a comment a friend of mine made on an earlier post)
It is not freedom that condemns people to poverty but lack thereof. Economic freedom is not only an indispensable part of a truly open and free society. It creates growth, prosperity and progress - not even […]

All individuals that have a naturalistic worldview that is free of supernatural and mystical elements, should visit The Brights’ movement website, and discuss with other likeminded individuals how one can respond wisely to the mumbo-jumbo-his-holiness discussions of the week.
For me at least, he will be remembered for his views on women, homosexuality and, last […]

RollingStone (No. 946, April 15, 2004) placed Bruce 23rd in a list of the 100 most important musicians of all times. The beautiful illustration that is featured in the corresponding article (writen by Jackson Brown), was by Owen Smith. You can find some of his work at the ‘La Luz De Jesus’ gallery, or […]

The Pulitzer Prize 2005 for fiction was awarded today to Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I haven’t read the book, but I just might.

THUMBS UP to Negroponte.
From Wired News:
In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers from a foundation run by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte and his wife Elaine.
“When the kids […]

Don Swaim has interviewed many of the best writers of the English language. These interviews lasted 30 to 45 minutes and had to be edited down to two-minute shows for his CBS Radio Show. You can find all these interviews, in their entirety, at the Wired for Books website. Interviews of, among others, John Irving, […]