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Hugo Awards announced

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The winners were announced today. I have not read the work, which friends have described as a novel for adults about magic. All of this year’s nominees were British authors.

Charles Stross won the award for Best Novella for “The Concrete Jungle” […]

Assessing the Supremes

The latest issue of The Atlantic has two interesting columns making arguments I haven’t seen elsewhere about aspects of the opening on the Supreme Court.

The strongest of the two is by Stuart Taylor Jr. He observes that the Court is dominated by appointees from the ranks of appellate judges as opposed to practicing lawyers […]

DVDs – Foreign edition

For whatever reason, I’ve watched more DVDs in the last couple weeks than in the last several months. Not up to full reviews of them but thought it worth posting a couple comments. Here’s a few of the foreign films consumed recently, rated on a 5 star scale and listed in alphabetically.

Coup de Torchon […]

Summer doldrums?

I don’t know if it’s summer doldrums, the humidity, my back screwing around with me again or just general inertia. I’m struggling to go to work, get work done or even get through more than a few pages of the books I’m reading, let alone provide a real substantive post on anything. So, here’s a […]

Springsteen on writers on Springsteen

As I noted at the time,the NYT Book Review ran a spread on Bruce Springsteen books. In this weekend’s edition, Bruce chimes in with the following somewhat tongue-in-cheek letter:

The merits of my music and performances over the last 30 years I gladly leave to the fans, critics and writers. On the subject of “image,” […]