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Books RSS FeedsContent (Doctorow) - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (2008), by Cory Doctorow, contrib. by John P. Barlow (PDF with commentary at craphound.com)...Feed Source: craphound.com The Daredevil (Daviess) - The Daredevil, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by E. Sophonisba Hergesheimer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Andrew the Glad (Daviess) - Andrew the Glad, by Maria Thompson Daviess (Gutenberg text)... The Tinder-Box (Daviess) - The Tinder-Box, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Phyllis (Daviess) - Phyllis, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Percy D. Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Rose of Old Harpeth (Daviess) - Rose of Old Harpeth, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by W. B. King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Over Paradise Ridge (Daviess) - Over Paradise Ridge: A Romance, by Maria Thompson Daviess (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Melting of Molly (Daviess) - The Melting of Molly (British magazine version), by Maria Thompson Daviess (Gutenberg text)... The Vehement Flame (Deland) - The Vehement Flame, by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (Gutenberg text)... The Golden Bird (Daviess) - The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... John Ward, Preacher (Deland) - John Ward, Preacher, by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (Gutenberg text)... Polly (Meade) - Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Heart's Kingdom (Daviess) - The Heart's Kingdom, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by W. B. King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... A Girl in Ten Thousand (Meade) - A Girl in Ten Thousand, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)... Sue (Meade) - Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)... The Great Amulet (Diver) - The Great Amulet, by Maud Diver (Gutenberg text)... Dickory Dock (Meade) - Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... A Modern Tomboy (Meade) - A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and page images)... A Master of Mysteries (Meade) - A Master of Mysteries, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, illust. by J. Ambrose Walton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... Red Rose and Tiger Lily (Meade) - Red Rose and Tiger Lily: or, In a Wider World, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... How it All Came Round (Meade) - How it All Came Round, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... A Young Mutineer (Meade) - A Young Mutineer, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... A Big Temptation, and Other Stories (Meade) - A Big Temptation, and Other Stories, by L. T. Meade, M. B. Manwell, and Maggie Browne, illust. by Arthur A. Dixon (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... Betty Vivian (Meade) - Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... A World of Girls (Meade) - A World of Girls: The Story of a School, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Girls of the Forest (Meade) - Girls of the Forest, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)... The Children of Wilton Chase (Meade) - The Children of Wilton Chase, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... An Adventuress (Meade) - An Adventuress (London: Chatto and Windus, 1899), by L. T. Meade (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Under the Dragon Throne (Meade) - Under the Dragon Throne, by L. T. Meade and Robert K. Douglas (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Out of the Fashion (Meade) - Out of the Fashion (Rahway, NJ, and New York: The Mershon Co., c1892), by L. T. Meade (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Cracker Joe (Denison) - Cracker Joe (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Mary A. Denison (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Far to Seek (Diver) - Far to Seek: A Romance of England and India, by Maud Diver (stable link)... The Melting of Molly (Daviess) - The Melting of Molly (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1912), by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Raymond Moreau Crosby (stable link)... The Rising Tide (Deland) - The Rising Tide (New York and London: Harper and Bros., ca. 1916), by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, illust. by F. Walter Taylor (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at Emory)... Doctor Warrick's Daughters (Davis) - Doctor Warrick's Daughters (New York: Harper and Bros., 1896), by Rebecca Harding Davis (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... A Tower to Peace (Fisher) - A Tower to Peace: The Story of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace (1945), by Harold H. Fisher (PDF at archive.org)... To Communism Via Majority Vote (Moreell) - To Communism Via Majority Vote (1952), by Ben Moreell (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (Vorse) - Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1911), by Mary Heaton Vorse (multiple formats at archive.org)... Days And Nights In The Tropics (Harris) - Days And Nights In The Tropics (Toronto: Morang and Co., 1905), by William Richard Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Hindu at Home (Padfield) - The Hindu at Home: Being Sketches of Hindu Daily Life (second edition; Madras: S. P. C. K. Depository; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1908), by Joseph Edwin Padfield (multiple formats at archive.org)... Justus Falckner, Mystic and Scholar, Devout Pietist in Germany, Hermit on the Wissahickon, Missionary on the Hudson (Sachse) - Justus Falckner, Mystic and Scholar, Devout Pietist in Germany, Hermit on the Wissahickon, Missionary on the Hudson: A Bi-Centennial Memorial of the First Regular Ordination of an Orthodox Pastor in America (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1903), by Julius Friedrich Sachse (multiple formats at archive.org)... "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other Essays (Gibbons) - "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other Essays (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1872), by Phebe Earle Gibbons (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Butcher of Cawnpore (Graydon) - The Butcher of Cawnpore, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock (Graydon) - The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock: or, The Secret of Crag Island (text from the serial version; illustrations from serial and book versions), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Fighting Lads of Devon (Graydon) - The Fighting Lads of Devon: or, In the Days of the Armada, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Rajah's Fortress (Graydon) - The Rajah's Fortress, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... Selected works and commentary (Graydon) - Selected works and commentary, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Jungle Trappers (Graydon) - The Jungle Trappers: A Tale of the Indian Jungle, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... From Lake to Wilderness (Graydon) - From Lake to Wilderness: or, The Cruise of the Yolande, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... A Legacy of Peril (Graydon) - A Legacy of Peril, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Princess of the Purple Palace (Graydon) - The Princess of the Purple Palace (original newspaper serial version), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... In Fort and Prison (Graydon) - In Fort and Prison: or, The Mystery of Larry Redmayne, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... Exiled to Siberia (Graydon) - Exiled to Siberia, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... Lost in the Slave Land (Graydon) - Lost in the Slave Land: or, The Mystery of the Sacred Lamp Rock, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... With Boer and Britisher in the Transvaal (Graydon) - With Boer and Britisher in the Transvaal, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... In the Days of Washington (Graydon) - In the Days of Washington: A Story of the American Revolution, by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)... The Complete Book of Cheese (Brown) - The Complete Book of Cheese (New York: Gramercy Pub. Co., 1955), by Bob Brown, illust. by Erik Blegvad (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Uncle Max (Carey) - Uncle Max, by Rosa Nouchette Carey (Gutenberg text)... Canoe Boys and Campfires (Graydon) - Canoe Boys and Campfires: or, Adventures on Winding Waters, by William Murray Graydon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Doctor Luttrell's First Patient (Carey) - Doctor Luttrell's First Patient (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1900), by Rosa Nouchette Carey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The River of Darkness (Graydon) - The River of Darkness, by William Murray Graydon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Cryptogram (Graydon) - The Cryptogram, by William Murray Graydon (Gutenberg text)... The Camp in the Snow (Graydon) - The Camp in the Snow, by William Murray Graydon (Gutenberg text)... Babes in the Wood (Croker) - Babes in the Wood: A Romance of the Jungles (fifth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1914), by B. M. Croker (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Tender Mercies of the Good (Coleridge) - The Tender Mercies of the Good (London: Isbister and Co., 1895), by Christabel R. Coleridge (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Half-Caste (Craik) - The Half-Caste: An Old Governess's Tale (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1897), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Compensation (Chatterton) - Compensation: A Story of Real Life Thirty Years Ago (2 volumes; London: J. Parker and Son, 1856), by Georgiana Chatterton (stable link)... Children of Circumstance (Caffyn) - Children of Circumstance: A Novel (second edition, 3 volumes; London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Mrs. Caffyn Mannington (stable link)... Aunt Anne (Clifford) - Aunt Anne (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892), by Mrs. Clifford (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... A Flash of Summer (Clifford) - A Flash of Summer: The Story of a Simple Woman's Life (London: Methuen and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Clifford (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Murder of Delicia (Corelli) - The Murder of Delicia (London: Skeffington and Son, 1896), by Marie Corelli (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... No Friend Like a Sister (Carey) - No Friend Like a Sister (London and New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Rosa Nouchette Carey (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Fairy Book (May) - Fairy Book (Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard, c1865), by Sophie May (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Eros and Anteros (Campbell) - Eros and Anteros: or, The Bachelor's Ward (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1857), by Juliet Hamersley Lewis Campbell (stable link)... Health and Wealth (Hubbard) - Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Gibson) - Records of Early English Drama: Kent: Diocese of Canterbury (3 volumes; 2002), ed. by James M. Gibson (stable link)... Records of Early English Drama (George) - Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, 1991), ed. by David George (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Anderson) - Records of Early English Drama: Newcastle Upon Tyne (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, 1982), ed. by J. J. Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Galloway) - Records of Early English Drama: Norwich, 1540-1642 (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1984), ed. by David Galloway (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Elliott) - Records of Early English Drama: Oxford (2 volumes; c2004), ed. by John R. Elliott, Alan H. Nelson, Alexandra F. Johnston, and Diana Wyatt (stable link)... Records of Early English Drama (Somerset) - Records of Early English Drama: Shropshire (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1994), ed. by J. A. B. Somerset (stable link)... Records of Early English Drama (Stokes) - Records of Early English Drama: Somerset, Including Bath (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1996), ed. by James Stokes and Robert Joseph Alexander (stable link)... Records of Early English Drama (Louis) - Records of Early English Drama: Sussex (c2000), ed. by Cameron Louis (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Johnston) - Records of Early English Drama: York (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1979), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson (stable link)... God (Pohle) - God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes: A Dogmatic Treatise (second edition; St. Louis et al.: B. Herder, 1914), by Joseph Pohle, ed. by Arthur Preuss (PDF at cimmay.us)... The White King of Africa (Graydon) - The White King of Africa, by William Murray Graydon (HTML at erbzine.com)... Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly (Mauritius. National Assembly) - Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (HTML in Mauritius)... Yoga Vashisht, or, Heaven Found (Gherwal) - Yoga Vashisht, or, Heaven Found (Santa Barbara, CA: The author, 1930), ed. by Rishi Singh Gherwal (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P. C., K. C. B., G. C. M. G., Sometime Minister at the Court of Morocco (Brooks) - A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P. C., K. C. B., G. C. M. G., Sometime Minister at the Court of Morocco (London: J. Murray, 1896), by Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks and Alice Emily Drummond-Hay (page images at Google; US access only)... Lost Indian Magic (Moon) - Lost Indian Magic: A Mystery Story of the Red Man As He Lived Before the White Men Came (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., c1918), by Grace Moon and Carl Moon (stable link)... The Little Preacher (Hobbs) - The Little Preacher: or, Life of Jimmie Hobbs (revised edition, seventh thousand; c1881), by James Hobbs (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Hays) - Records of Early English Drama: Dorset; Cornwall (c1999), by Rosalind Conklin Hays, C. Edward McGee, Sally L. Joyce, and Evelyn S. Newlyn (multiple formats at archive.org)... English and American Philosophy Since 1800 (Rogers) - English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical Survey (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)... Records of Early English Drama (Klausner) - Records of Early English Drama: Herefordshire; Worcestershire (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1990), ed. by David N. Klausner (multiple formats at archive.org)... Senate Standing Orders (Lesotho. Parliament. Senate) - Senate Standing Orders, by Lesotho Senate (PDF files in Lesotho)... National Assembly Standing Orders (Lesotho. Parliament. National Assembly) - National Assembly Standing Orders, by Lesotho National Assembly (PDF files in Lesotho)... Mischievous Maid Faynie (Libbey) - Mischievous Maid Faynie (author's special edition, 1899), by Laura Jean Libbey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Journal of a Lady's Travels Round the World (Bridges) - Journal of a Lady's Travels Round the World (London: J. Murray, 1883), by F. D. Bridges (page images at Google)... The Bow of Orange Ribbon (Barr) - The Bow of Orange Ribbon (New York: A. D. Porter Co., c1886), by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Prisoner (Brown) - The Prisoner (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Alice Brown (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Vanishing Points (Brown) - Vanishing Points (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Alice Brown (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Married for Her Beauty (Brame) - Married for Her Beauty: or, Bitter Atonement, by Charlotte M. Brame (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Sweet Clover (Burnham) - Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Clara Louise Burnham (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim (Burnett) - In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Mother's Recompense (Aguilar) - The Mother's Recompense, by Grace Aguilar (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Wooing o't (Alexander) - The Wooing o't (sixth edition; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1881), by Mrs. Alexander (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... The Cloven Foot (Braddon) - The Cloven Foot (3 volumes; London: John and Robert Maxwell, n.d.), by M. E. Braddon (stable link)... Eleanor's Victory (Braddon) - Eleanor's Victory (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by M. E. Braddon (stable link)... A Knight of Spain (Bowen) - A Knight of Spain (London: Methuen and Co., c1913), by Marjorie Bowen (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Birth (Gale) - Birth (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Zona Gale, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps (frame-dependent HTML at Emory)... Bookbinding for Bibliophiles (Battershall) - Bookbinding for Bibliophiles (Greenwich, CT: The Literary Collector Press, 1905), by Fletcher W. Battershall (multiple formats at archive.org)... Conrad First (Conrad) - Conrad First: The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive (original serial versions of Conrad's writings), by Joseph Conrad, ed. by Stephen Donovan (page images with commentary at conradfirst.net)... A Descriptive Location Register of Joseph Conrad's Literary Manuscripts (Moore) - A Descriptive Location Register of Joseph Conrad's Literary Manuscripts, by Gene M. Moore (PDF at Joseph Conrad Society)... Gendered Interventions (Warhol) - Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric (Weber) - Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Freshest Advices (Wiles) - Freshest Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1965), by R. M. Wiles (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Washing "The Great Unwashed" (Williams) - Washing "The Great Unwashed": Public Baths in Urban America, 1840-1920 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Marilyn T. Williams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Court Satires of the Restoration (Wilson) - Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Kemalism ˇ Perry Anderson: After the Ottomans - 'The greatest single truth to declare itself in the wake of 1989,' J.G.A. Pocock wrote two years afterwards,is that the frontiers of 'Europe' towards the east are everywhere open and indeterminate. 'Europe', it can now be seen, is not a continent - as in the ancient geographers' dream - but a subcontinent: a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass, like India in being inhabited by a highly distinctive chain of interacting cultures, but unlike it in lacking a clearly marked geophysical frontier. Instead of Afghanistan and the Himalayas, there are vast level areas through which conventional 'Europe' shades into conventional 'Asia', and few would recognise the Ural mountains if they ever reached them.But, he went on, empires - of which in its fashion the European Union must be accounted one - had always needed to determine the space in which they exercised their power, fixing the borders of fear or attraction around them.... What Works Doesn't Work ˇ Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas - In 1964, Harold Wilson described the record of the (outgoing) Conservative government as '13 wasted years'. If the present Parliament lasts its full term - as seems likely - the electorate will be asked to pass judgment on 13 years of Labour rule. Voters today seem to have the same view of Labour as Wilson had of the Tories all those years ago. Many who once wished Labour well are now wondering whether they can vote Labour at all, or whether they should stop voting tactically. This is an important decision: the Labour majorities in the last three elections have been much enlarged by people choosing to vote for the candidate thought most likely to defeat the Tory - a spontaneous alternative vote. Since the country's politicians have refused to reform the country's medieval system of voting, the electorate has reformed it for itself. But it is a reform without any statutory basis: people can choose to practise it or not. Labour thus faces a double threat. Not merely that people will no l... What Condoleezza Said ˇ Tony Wood: Why Did Saakashvili Do It? - The conflict in South Ossetia has produced a cloud of rhetoric that seems to have grown in inverse proportion to the intensity of fighting on the ground. Once the outcome became clear - a crushing Russian military victory - Cold War imagery flooded the Western press. Far more than the status of a tiny mountainous enclave in the South Caucasus was said to be at stake: not only was Georgia's territorial integrity imperilled by Russian tyranny, but the future of democracy was under threat. In the Washington Post of 11 August, Robert Kagan asserted that the conflict will be seen as 'a turning point no less significant' than the fall of the Berlin Wall. Given this 'much bigger drama', 'the details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important.'... Move Your Head and the Picture Changes ˇ Jenny Turner on Helen DeWitt - Some years ago, the novelist David Foster Wallace submitted himself to a long television interview with Charlie Rose, the PBS chat-show host. It was a terrific performance, and in it Wallace talked about why, in much of his work, narrative is split into body-text and footnotes:There's a way, it seems to me, that reality's fractured right now, at least the reality that I live in. And the difficulty about . . . writing about that reality is that text is very linear and it's very unified, and . . . I, anyway, am constantly on the lookout for ways to fracture the text that aren't totally disorienting - I mean, you can take the lines and jumble them up and that's nicely fractured, but nobody's gonna read it.Last year, Helen DeWitt posted this passage on paperpools, her blog: it 'says everything I might have wanted to say about life, the universe, postmodernism and Your Name Here.' Your Name Here is a 120,000-word novel; DeWitt is one of its authors, the category of authorship itself having ... Just Two Clicks ˇ Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle - As Barack Obama never tires of saying, America is a country where 'ordinary people can do extraordinary things.' In January 2006, Neil Entwistle, a seemingly ordinary 27-year-old Englishman with an honours degree from the University of York, who had been living in the US for barely four months, shot dead his American wife, Rachel, and their baby daughter, Lillian, with a long-barrelled Colt .22 revolver borrowed from his father-in-law's gun collection. By the time the bodies were discovered in their house in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, huddled together beneath a rumpled duvet in the brand-new four-poster bed bought by the couple just ten days before, Entwistle was home in England, living with his parents in Worksop, as if what had happened in America was a violent dream from which he'd woken to reality in his old back bedroom at 27 Coleridge Road.... A Man or a Girl's Blouse? ˇ Jeremy Harding: Serbia after Karadzic - At the time of the parliamentary elections in Serbia earlier this summer, the possibility that Radovan Karadzic, once the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might be handed over to stand trial at The Hague seemed remote. The acquittal of the former KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj in April had stunned opinion in Serbia and added to the sense that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was a Serb-grinding machine which spat out Bosnians, Kosovo Albanians and Croats intact. The idea of any more Serbs going on trial was not popular: even someone like Karadzic, born in Montenegro, long resident in Sarajevo and regarded by many as a ludicrous figure. His arrest late last month illustrates how rapidly things are changing in Serbia, and how keen the new pro-European leadership is to drive its policies forward. The process of EU accession has long been conditional on the delivery of the big three: Karadzic, Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wanted for the massacre of Croats in Vukovar ... Past Its Peak ˇ Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis - Unlike the oil 'shocks' of the 1970s, the current energy crisis is almost certain to be long-lasting. None of the quick fixes proposed by pundits and politicians - drilling in protected wilderness and maritime areas, curbs on commodity speculators, pressure on members of Opec to increase output - is likely to have much impact. In 1973-74 and again in 1979-80, events in the Middle East led to a sharp reduction in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, causing a contraction in global supplies and a rise in energy prices, and thus sparking a global recession. But when equilibrium of a sort was restored to the region, the oil began to flow again and the crisis passed. Now, however, the imbalance between supply and demand is largely due to factors inherent in oil commerce itself - and so is less easily solved.... Madame Matisse's Hat ˇ T.J. Clark: On Matisse - Henri Matisse's portrait of his wife, Amélie Parayre, was first shown at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. The catalogue called it simply La Femme au chapeau. Journalists soon decided (or pretended) that Matisse's painting was scandalous, and the public turned up in droves to make fun of it. So far so predictable: the script was forty years old. But on 15 November something unusual happened. Two paragraphs of real and vehement criticism appeared in the Symbolist journal L'Hermitage, signed by the painter-critic Maurice Denis. Ever since, they have haunted our picture of 20th-century art: What one finds above all, particularly in Matisse, is artificiality; not literary artificiality, which follows from the search to give expression to ideas; nor decorative artificiality, as the makers of Turkish and Persian carpets conceived it; no, something more abstract still; painting beyond every contingency, painting in itself, the pure act of painting . . . What you are doing, Matisse, is dialectic: y... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 17... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 17... Copyright © 2012, Online Business Idea. All Rights Reserved. |