Archive for March, 2007
Dawkins’s Replicators
I would love to see a debate between Dawkins and Brooke.
As someone who finds Dawkins’s arguments self-evidently true I have found other critical reviews of his book to be pretty frustrating in the way they avoid directly addressing his challenges to theists. It was refreshing to read a review that does not baulk at answering [...]
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The Indians in Paris
“Desires for 2007: to share, again and forever, the passion for books with the greatest number of people; to support this passion intensely, to feel its presence like an echo of our own lives. We invite you to immerse yourself in the depths of words and meaning, in a spirit of conviviality and a real [...]
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drb: readers’ comments
Delighted with the site; downloaded three articles for later reading – Tom Inglis, Peter Brooke and the Politics of Assimilation by Maurice Earls. Like the clean design of the site – and the content!
BO’R, Tralee
I wish you well with the drb, which is welcome. You should have included a little bit of background about Kapuscinski. [...]
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Copyright Worries
From The Bookseller, 16th March 2007
Writers must unite to fight for the importance of copyright in a rapidly changing digital world.
At a recent authors’ copyright debate Maureen Duffy called on delegates to rededicate themselves to the cause of copyright as still the only way to secure the financial return necessary to keep writing.
Author [...]
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In the Chat Room (1935)
In the Chat Room (1935)
In the Guardian’s books section of March 10th Veronica Horwell reviews a new study by Jenna Bailey of the Cooperative Correspondence Club, a contact organisation established in the 1930s for “educated women, trapped at home with their children (often many and not always wanted) because of the period’s rules which demanded [...]
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