This is disturbing. Notice that nowhere in the Reuters brief are the words “victims” or “innocent” used. They’re just collateral damage.
This is disturbing. Notice that nowhere in the Reuters brief are the words “victims” or “innocent” used. They’re just collateral damage.
I have a bit of a problem. I was reading Lolita, and, concurrently, Vera, a biography of Vera Nabokov and her relationship with her husband. Meanwhile, I had ordered Six Months Off, and that came in the mail last week, so even though I’m already two months into my sabbatical, I started reading it in [...]
A while back, I blogged about The Bondwoman’s Narrative, the book that was bought at auction by famed Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates and which he authenticated, edited, and sold to Warner Books. Back then, I expressed some skepticism about his methodology. I was not entirely surprised, therefore, by this article in the Boston Globe. [...]