Nomadics

Never been too much of a comics consumer, despite the knowledgeable efforts of my sons, specialists in that domain, but right now (the silly hol season could easily bear the blame) am delighting in...

For those who have French, or need to exercise theirs, and want to find some of the more interesting, off-beat events on the French cultural scene, may I recommend the site of writer and...

Tomorrow, 20 December 2006 at 11:15 a.m., Madame Lyne COHEN-SOLAL, assistant to mayor of Paris Bertrand DELANOË, will officially inaugurate the « Place Emmanuel LEVINAS». If you are in Paris, rendez-vous at the angle...

Thomas Bernhard in Cafe Bräunerhof in Vienna, 1988. Photo © Sepp Dreissinger) signandsight has brought us another sweet piece: a previously unpublished interview with Thomas Bernhard. While you can read the full piece here,...

Nor could I resist the above page, the very last one of Artaud’s last Ivry notebook, written the day before he died: the same characterthus returns eachmorning (it’s another one)to fulfill his revoltingcriminal and...

I forbidall &everybody tothink any-thing at allaboutmegiven thatwhile alive where I amI live andforbid myself to think In its 9 December 2006 supplement (not the weekly book supplement, which is integrated into the Friday...

In 2003 I spent three months in Berlin, happily ensconsed at the American Academy on the Wannsee. One of the great pleasures of the city was the excellent train service which wooshed us most...

It’s Hard Being a Woman Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily BAGHDAD, Dec. 5 (IPS) – Once one of the best countries for women’srights in the Middle East, Iraq has now become a place where...

sad news came this weekend : kari edwards died on saturday of heart failure in san francisco. I never met kari but had great pleasure reading the work, both in the books and on...

(Photo copyright Digne Meller-Marcovicz) Couldn’t resist posting a picture borrowed from Adam Sharr’s Heidegger’s Hut book: the one showing Heidegger standing next to his well — the well “with the / star-die on top,”...