Archive for November, 2006

Ten newly- translated pages of Hyperides’ work may offer insights into Athenian democracy — and its demise. See also the Archimedes Palimpsest project.

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Tom Stoppard wonders: “if you’ve forgotten a book, is that the same as never having read it?”

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According to John Barrell, Christopher Hitchens’ new book on Thomas Paine “reads like the work of a tired man. Too tired, to begin with, to check his facts.”

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Ralph Fiennes will direct a bizarre adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s haunting Snow Country. The story has been relocated to Canada.

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Margaret Atwood contends that Richard Powers’ writing is as undervalued as Melville’s was in the 19th century.

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