Nomadics

Yesterday PEN announced its 2006 awards. The complete list can be consulted on their website. As I was involved in one of the prizes, it gives me pleasure to announce those specifically related to...

“Intercapillary Space,” a blog animated (as the French would say) by a number of contributors, with Edmund Hardy as coordinator, is turning into one of the absolute musts of poetry-related blogs. I am especially...

So the cruellest month, also known as poetry month, is nearly over. Poetry will have been “honored,” fifteen-minute nano-fames will no doubt have been made here and there in the country, a few hundred...

Gödel with Einstein at Princeton, 1950 Happy 100th birthday, Kurt Gödel! Gödel was born on 28 April 1906 in the city of Brünn, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire (now Brno in the Czech republic)....

Signandsight today points usefully to three articles, two in Die Zeit and one in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that are worth checking out: Die Zeit, 27.04.2006 Thomas Gross wonders who belongs to the new societal...

In the Maghreb, decolonization in the 50s and 60s was effected to a good extent based on the banner of an arabo-islamic nationalism which staged Arabic as the true language of the region. Many...

from MEDITATIONS ON THE 40 STATIONS OF MANSOUR AL-HALLAJ: 12. Emancipation (litq)

Salon.com has a good piece by Juan Cole on the “Overwrought response to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s brave paper” on the influence of the Israel Lobby, a paper I had excerpted on this...

* * * Back from New York & the wedding of son Joseph Mastantuono with Yoori Kang. A grand occasion with superb weather in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Talk of a nomadic family: people...

On 6 March, my blog pointed to a piece critical of Naom Chomsky — an odd quirky piece that gave rise to some interesting correspondence, among them a poem by Rochelle Owens. Rochelle clearly...