Blake Lively Gets Her GOOP On. The Islamic State is no longer a juggernaut, it’s a motley alliance of factions just waiting to betray each other.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — At the mention of Caliph Ibrahim, leader of the self-declared Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abu Mustafa points at his chest and nods. “Ibrahim my friend,” he says. Abu Mustafa says proudly that Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, has been peaceful since its conquest by the fighters of what used to be known as ISIS. He tells me his own ties to them go back to the days after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he fought against the Americans alongside ISIS’s progenitor, Al Qaeda in Iraq. He says the Americans arrested him eight times; an Internet search of his real name turns up one prison record. “Life in Mosul is very normal,” says Abu Mustafa. _main. EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GENDER BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK. The Scan and the Export (Sean Dockray) Sean Dockray The Scan and the Export The scan is an ambivalent image.
It oscillates back and forth: between a physical page and a digital file, between one reader and another, between an economy of objects and an economy of data. Scans are failures in terms of quality, neither as “readable” as the original book nor the inevitable ebook, always containing too much visual information or too little. Technically speaking, it is by scanning that one can make a digital representation of a physical object, such as a book.
15 Questions Atheists Are Sick Of Answering. Why The "Fake Geek Girl" Meme Needs To Die. Pentametron 2013 (pentametron) Bollywood and the Nigerian Woman « Deepanjana Pal. Blaft has brought out what is possibly the first Hausa-English translation.
Chris Ware: Building Stories - Bookworm on KCRW. Graphic novelist Chris Ware stretches the notion of the book to fantastic proportions in his latest publication, Building Stories (Pantheon).
A large box that houses a miscellany of colorful pamphlets, tabloid comics, and a fold-out game board, Building Stories intimately details the people and happenings of a fictional building somewhere on the north shore of Chicago. Ware considers how we use stories to illuminate the sadness and mundanity of life with significance, poetry, and even beauty. Engage & Discuss Further the conversation with your thoughts and comments. Agree, disagree, present a different perspective -- engage. For information and guidelines click: Terms of Service | Privacy Policy Please note, comments are moderated. The Story Of Books. Jason Novak illustrates the origin story of the book.
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On Being Average. The Measure Of What Is Possible. Cinderella Residency. The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home has put out a call for expressions of interests for a Cinderella Residency . A family of five are tired of cleaning up the house. The whole domestic labour malarky is getting too much. They know that all the work that’s done will soon be undone. The mother and father work full time as university lecturers, artists and cultural dissenters. Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied. January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr.
Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. A Fiction Writer Applies For A Job In Finance. Name Nathan Savin Scott.
I’d go by Nathan Scott but apparently there’s already a writer by that… well, I guess that doesn’t matter now, anyway. Call me Nate. Or call me whatever you want. “i bit my tongue and stood in line” « The Blog of Disquiet. I don’t mean to pop up every few weeks on my own blog only to say, “Here is my review of …” but here is my review of Amit Majmudar’s Partitions for Pop Matters.
I found the book to be … not good, and here’s a little extract to explain why: Majmudar’s characters appear to serve as vessels for goodness, innocence, and hope. They are good Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, and for that reason they come together. Consider his Hindu characters: two children, wide-eyed and confused and learning about the greater world as their world falls apart.
Consider his Sikh character: a young girl on the cusp of womanhood, a girl so immersed in religion that several characters in the book understand that for her to be raped would be the worst thing of all. 12 Reasons To Be Thankful For Movember. The new literary chic. You’ve seen it around: hipsters wearing their books and rocking that quasi-intellectual look.
And inevitably, it has gone mainstream: clothing companies have been rolling out new literary-inspired products for the well-read masses. Here are some novel examples (pun intended): For the ladies who want a leg up on the book club discussion, this stylish pair of tights (above) is available from Zohara. The unique design will draw all attention to your legs, so no one will notice you skimmed more than actually read those last two chapters.