Sunday, December 30, 2007
Reading Rat, December 2007
Articles, essays, and reviews on authors and works in my recommended reading
(on The Constitution of the United States of America)
Given the hash that has been made of the United States Constitution by the modern Supreme Court, ordinary citizens who suspect foul play, but who lack any prior study of what passes for "constitutional law" nowadays, might benefit from an informative, accessible guide to the Constitution's true principles.--Matthew J. Franck
(on Friedrich Hayek)
One of Hayek’s most original contributions to economic theory is the insight that economic systems are based primarily on information rather than resources.--Jesse Larner
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
Review by David Luhrssen of Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda, Shepherd Express, December 27, 2007
In 2008, I Resolve To. . .Read More Books by Marjorie Pagel, Meet Me at the Corner, Franklin Now, Friday, Dec 21 2007, 11:31 AM
I've updated the posts on Beowulf, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, and Plato.
Third Culture Holiday Reading: Books By Edge Contributors (and others)--2007, by John Brockman, Edge
World Wide Words: Michael Quinion writes on International English from a British viewpoint
I've updated the posts on Augustine, J. M. Coetzee, Dante Alighieri, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Thomas Jefferson, V. S. Naipaul, and Tom Stoppard.
Books from Our Pages, The New Yorker, December 17, 2007
Husbands and Wives by Terry Castle, review of Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie, and Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, London Review of Books, December 13, 2007
Gold & Geld by John Updike, review of Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections: Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others, an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, from October 18, 2007–June 30, 2008, New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007
The Wand of the Enchanter by Michael Dirda, review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 edited by Greg Johnson, The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates, and Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006 edited by Greg Johnson, New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007
I've updated the post on Abraham Lincoln
Pick of the bunch: History, politics, music, business, biography, memoir, letters and fiction. There is something for everyone in this round-up of the year's best books. The Economist, December 6, 2007
Critical Condition by James Wolcott, review of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool, The New Republic, December 4, 2007
Nan, American Man by John Updike, review of A Free Life by Ha Jin, The New Yorker, December 3, 2007
Do we need a literary canon? by Richard Jenkyns, Prospect, December 2007
Castle adamant by Denis Donoghue, review of Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s by Edmund Wilson, The New Criterion, December 2007
Radical un-chic by James Panero. On Tom Wolfe & the derriere garde. The New Criterion, December 2007
Review by McKay McFadden of Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, Bold Type, December 2007
Books of the Year 2007, New Statesman, November 22, 2007
Review by Neal Hammons of Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander, Bookslut, August 2003
I've updated the posts on Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal
The 10 Best Books of 2007, 100 Notable Books of 2007, and Notable Children’s Books of 2007, The New York Times, December 2, 2007
Small library in India binds present with the past by Geeta Sharma-Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25, 2007
Ten Influential Books by Kenneth Rexroth, The Christian Century, December 12, 1962, at Bureau of Public Secrets
On my list of recommended reading, I've updated the entries for Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, Reiner Kunze, Mario Vargas Llosa, William Trevor, also Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Max Frisch, E. H. Gombrich, Ondra Lysohorsky, Norman Mailer, also Pierre Abelard and Heloise, Avicenna, Genshin, al-Jahiz, The Song of Roland, Murasaki Shikibu, and The Talmud. ¶ 12/30/2007 07:58:00 AM
(on The Constitution of the United States of America)
Given the hash that has been made of the United States Constitution by the modern Supreme Court, ordinary citizens who suspect foul play, but who lack any prior study of what passes for "constitutional law" nowadays, might benefit from an informative, accessible guide to the Constitution's true principles.
(on Friedrich Hayek)
One of Hayek’s most original contributions to economic theory is the insight that economic systems are based primarily on information rather than resources.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
Review by David Luhrssen of Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda, Shepherd Express, December 27, 2007
In 2008, I Resolve To. . .Read More Books by Marjorie Pagel, Meet Me at the Corner, Franklin Now, Friday, Dec 21 2007, 11:31 AM
I've updated the posts on Beowulf, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, and Plato.
Third Culture Holiday Reading: Books By Edge Contributors (and others)--2007, by John Brockman, Edge
World Wide Words: Michael Quinion writes on International English from a British viewpoint
I've updated the posts on Augustine, J. M. Coetzee, Dante Alighieri, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Thomas Jefferson, V. S. Naipaul, and Tom Stoppard.
Books from Our Pages, The New Yorker, December 17, 2007
Husbands and Wives by Terry Castle, review of Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie, and Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, London Review of Books, December 13, 2007
Gold & Geld by John Updike, review of Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections: Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others, an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, from October 18, 2007–June 30, 2008, New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007
The Wand of the Enchanter by Michael Dirda, review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 edited by Greg Johnson, The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates, and Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006 edited by Greg Johnson, New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007
I've updated the post on Abraham Lincoln
Pick of the bunch: History, politics, music, business, biography, memoir, letters and fiction. There is something for everyone in this round-up of the year's best books. The Economist, December 6, 2007
Critical Condition by James Wolcott, review of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool, The New Republic, December 4, 2007
Nan, American Man by John Updike, review of A Free Life by Ha Jin, The New Yorker, December 3, 2007
Do we need a literary canon? by Richard Jenkyns, Prospect, December 2007
Castle adamant by Denis Donoghue, review of Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s by Edmund Wilson, The New Criterion, December 2007
Radical un-chic by James Panero. On Tom Wolfe & the derriere garde. The New Criterion, December 2007
Review by McKay McFadden of Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, Bold Type, December 2007
Books of the Year 2007, New Statesman, November 22, 2007
Review by Neal Hammons of Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander, Bookslut, August 2003
I've updated the posts on Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal
The 10 Best Books of 2007, 100 Notable Books of 2007, and Notable Children’s Books of 2007, The New York Times, December 2, 2007
Small library in India binds present with the past by Geeta Sharma-Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25, 2007
Ten Influential Books by Kenneth Rexroth, The Christian Century, December 12, 1962, at Bureau of Public Secrets
On my list of recommended reading, I've updated the entries for Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, Reiner Kunze, Mario Vargas Llosa, William Trevor, also Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Max Frisch, E. H. Gombrich, Ondra Lysohorsky, Norman Mailer, also Pierre Abelard and Heloise, Avicenna, Genshin, al-Jahiz, The Song of Roland, Murasaki Shikibu, and The Talmud. ¶ 12/30/2007 07:58:00 AM
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The mention of Marquez reminded me of something I read in a Columbus Dispatch article today:
Ugly Betty is returning to her roots, and Colombians aren't sure they like the idea.
ABC's satire of telenovelas has just begun to air in Latin America, but in the country that gave birth to Yo Soy Betty la Fea, the series on which Ugly Betty is based, many people see the U.S. show as a pale imitation and an outright counterfeit.
"Watching the gringo version would be like reading 100 Years of Solitude in English," says Fabian Sanabria, an anthropologist at the Universidad Nacional who studies television. "It makes no sense."
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Ugly Betty is returning to her roots, and Colombians aren't sure they like the idea.
ABC's satire of telenovelas has just begun to air in Latin America, but in the country that gave birth to Yo Soy Betty la Fea, the series on which Ugly Betty is based, many people see the U.S. show as a pale imitation and an outright counterfeit.
"Watching the gringo version would be like reading 100 Years of Solitude in English," says Fabian Sanabria, an anthropologist at the Universidad Nacional who studies television. "It makes no sense."
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