Nomadics

March 7, 2010

"Would you want an idea for a friend?"

This morning Charlotte Mandell reminds us of an interview Brad Morrow did with Robert Kelly back in 1987 and that is now available in the Conjunctions website’s archives. It is quite a treat —...

Art / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature

March 6, 2010

A One Hundred Years-Old Storm

One hundred years ago the first issue of Der Sturm, the great avant-garde magazine edited by Herwarth Walden in Berlin appeared (well, to be exact it was on 3 March 1910). For those who...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine / West Bank

March 5, 2010

A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST IDF GALA DINNER

JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE 2010 ANNUAL NY GALA DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF) NO to the IDF’s brutality! NO to the Occupation and Siege...

Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

March 4, 2010

Undersea Release of Methane

The New York Times today reports on a study that says that “Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way.” Below, the opening paras of Cornelia Dean‘s article. You can read the whole piece here....

Human rights / Intellectuals

March 3, 2010

Liao Yiwu's Letter to his Readers

Chinese poet & writer Liao Yiwu was pulled off the plane that was supposed to take him to Beijing (from where he was to fly to the Literature Festival in Cologne, Germany), interrogated by...

Literary Magazines & Reviews / Maghrebi Literature / Translation

March 2, 2010

Translations of Maghrebian Poets

Two of my translations of work by Maghrebian poets have just come out: — Habib Tengour’s “Ordeal2” in the third issue of Cerise magazine — — An extract of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Moi l’aigre in...

Intellectuals / Interview / Literature / New York

February 28, 2010

Burroughs on his Buddies

Oh, well, this morning with sun out & snow on the ground here in Nueva Iork, some nostalgia: Burroughs talking about meeting Ginsberg & Kerouac way back when — actually, when I was 2…

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment

February 27, 2010

An Iceberg the Size of Luxembourg

As I am from Luxembourg, I well know how small a country it is — and yet, it is a country with all that entails, and so it has a size that is both...

Uncategorized

February 26, 2010

Charles Bernstein Interview

Much enjoyed the Chicago interview Charles Bernstein gave to Daniel Benjamin for the Chicago Weekly while in that town a week. or two ago. Below, a short extract. Go here to read the whole...

Arab Culture / Books / Poetry / Translation

February 25, 2010

Private Library's Introduction to Arab Literature

Just came across this series of blog entries by L.D. Mitchell on his Private Library blog, and this sequence on Arabic Literature — start here with # 1 — is a fine introduction with...