BOOK RIOT - Always books. Never boring. Intellectual Curiosities and Provocations. The Public Domain Review. Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics. The Nervous Breakdown. Largehearted boy: a music and literature blog. Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. Roundtable - Lapham’s Quarterly. Elias Altman Miracles and Manure: Notes on “Revolutions” Tags: introductions, Revolutions, Roundtable, Spring 2014 It's a popular dismissal of revolutions to say that they always end in the tyranny they sought to overthrow.
What use is the whole bloody mess if the oppressed becomes the oppressor? Fair enough, but the former tyranny had also ended in tyranny, and holding too dearly to the inevitability hypothesis resembles writing off the project of birth by proving the surety of death. Still, what's in between can be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, particularly in the early years of a brave new world. Things have to get worse before they get better, we're told.
They might also get worse before they stay worse. Sometime during the 1990s, when big-screen adaptations of Regency novels became a near-annual tradition, a strange thing happened: Jane Austen stopped being funny. In-depth, inappropriate interviews with authors. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. "Neither highbrows nor lowbrows nor midbrows, but elastic-brows.” — George Orwell. The New Inquiry. 3:AM Magazine. The Rumpus.net. Granta Magazine. The American Reader: a monthly journal of literature and criticism. The internet literature magazine blog of the future. The Awl - Be Less Stupid. Electric Literature's Recommended Reading.
Los Angeles Review of Books. Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review. Top 10 Literary Websites: 2013 edition! In 2010, I wrote the most popular post on Category Thirteen, ever.
I listed my Top 10 Literary Websites and, apparently, people really dug that topic — enough, at least, that they ended up on my site and must’ve told others about it. Well, it’s 2013 and I’ve realized something: I was a slacker for 2011 and 2012 (among many other things, obvi.). So, in the spirit of giving people what they want, I’ve updated my list and am pretty damn excited about it! Let’s take a look my top 10 literary websites, and by 10, of course I mean 12! 1 ) The Rumpus – The more things change, the more they stay the same. 2 ) The Nervous Breakdown — I really can’t say enough good things about Brad Listi and the work he puts into his Other People Podcast. 3) The Millions – The Millions is still awesome. 4 ) HTMLGiant – Blake Butler & co. are still keeping lit. edgy at HTMLGiant. 6 ) The Lit Pub — Want books?
7 ) Sundog Lit – Hey new kid! 9 ) The Contextual Life — Gabrielle Gantz is awesome. Honorable Mentions. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. In recent years there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society.
This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course that we teach at Cornell. Познер. LitReactor. Book Haven. 50 Books For An 11-Year-Old. Britain, that most bookish of countries, has seen some heated debate about how many books children should be reading.
Education Secretary Michael Gove believes an 11-year-old should read 50 books a year. Some folks agreed, others said it was too many, some people said the number did not matter as long as kids read and others said this statement made no sense while many of Britain’s public libraries are being threatened with closure. This is my personal take on the matter (not AbeBooks’) and I’m writing as a father of eight-year-old and five-year-old daughters.
Reading should be an essential part of any childhood. Teachers and schools can teach you many useful things (although I’ve not used calculus in my adult life) but a steady diet of literature can ensure a young person’s education never ends. The number of books you read doesn’t really matter. Of course, I am very biased. This year, my eight-year-old had probably read around 50 books by mid-April. Boy by Roald Dahl. 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s. The Millions. Librusek. Интриги Книги. Новости литературы - книги новинки, лучшие книги ,книжные новинки 2011, новинки книг 2011, что читать, анонсы книг. Книжное братство.