Nomadics

Friend John Maas pointed me to this sound file, the free download at audio salon.com, though you can also find the song, or snippets thereof, on the web, at Algerian rock/pop/rai star Rachid Taha‘s...

That excellent newsdigest service, signandsight, has compiled a most useful overview of the press’ reactions on the Peter Handke affair re the Heine Prize. I’ve brought it up several times on this blog already,...

Thought is Made in the Mouth: Dada Sound Poetry and ManifestosWednesday, June 21, 6:00 p.m.The Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenuesNew York, NY 10019-5497 The Roy and Niuta...

The New York Times reports this morning that Donal Hall will be the successor of Ted Kooser as US Poet Laureate. Here are the opening paras of the article which you can read in...

The Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti died on Monday in Vienna at age 83 after a long illness (he had been confined in a wheelchair for some years). An immense composer he may be best...

If coming through Paris this summer before 15 August, don’t miss the monster Jean-Luc Godards retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Center. The complete retrospective includes 140 films and a wide a range of documents...

Last wednesday I posted on the Juan Cole “affair.” Here is Cole’s response to all the commentaries his non-appointment at Yale has brought forth, from his own blog: Friday, June 09, 2006 Yale Affair...

This morning the email inbox had a message from Francisco Garcia Fitz, responding to my June 5 post concerning an article he published in the German paper Die Welt. My worry was that the...

The Peter Handke scandal just won’t go away. The German papers keep the discussion around the Heine Prize (see my blog for May 31) going on a daily basis. Today’s Die Zeit has several...

On a number of occasions I have quoted or pointed to Juan Cole’s blog, especially in relation to Middle East politics, and most recently in relation to the Israel lobby affair. A tenured professor,...