Bertrand Russell’s alphabet book
Design Observer posts pages from Bertrand Russell’s very entertaining The Good Citizen’s Alphabet. “L: Liberty — The right to obey the police.”
Design Observer posts pages from Bertrand Russell’s very entertaining The Good Citizen’s Alphabet. “L: Liberty — The right to obey the police.”
At age 101, “the only surviving member of Thomas Hardy’s theatrical group,” the Hardy Players, will recite the poet’s work as part of an event called Dorset Voices.
The FBI has been forwarded a “Values in Education” complaint that assigning books by Wright, Morrison and Vonnegut violates laws against distribution of porn to minors.
Flight, Sherman Alexie’s first novel in a decade, hits bookstores in late March.
Looking back on the Madame Bovary trial, and the banning of Lolita, Ulysses, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, it’s easy to feel superior to the philistines who didn’t recognize these literary works as high art. (Flaubert disséquant Madame Bovary caricature, at right, found here.) But Elizabeth Ladenson argues in Dirt for Art’s Sake that each age, including ours, is censorious in . . .