Should racist book be banned?
The Guardian reports that a Congolese man, Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, now living in Belgium, has applied to the Belgium courts to have Hergé's Tintin i
Archive for the Half-filtered Category
Review: Kobo eReader
Kobo, the offshoot of Canada-based Chapters/Indigo, released its eReader in Canada at the beginning of May and so I scurried out and bought myself one
Alice Miller Dies – It Was Her Mother’s Fault
I note that the psychoanalyst, Alice Miller, has died at the age of 87. You can find her obituary in the New York Times. One of my funnier moments
Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
The Roman Catholic Church appears to be in crisis with the continued outing of homosexual pedophile priests and revelations of abuse. The sad thing
The Other Sister, by Lola Lemire Tostevin
The Other Sister is a story of twins and, perhaps necessarily, a story of personal identity. It concerns Julia, a freshly admitted resident of Evenh
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Franz Kafka had written William Goldman's The Princess Bride? Neither have I but I just thought I'd ask.
Cheri DiNovo and Israeli Apartheid Week
This year's sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) was held from March 1st to 14th. As usual, there was a fooferah. Now that the event is over
Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes
Do you remember Michael Apted's documentary Seven Up! He follows fourteen kids from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and poses (to the viewers)
Dissing the Oscars – Up
At last I look at the 10th and final film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar by the esteemed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Up, an ani
Dissing the Oscars – An Education
Lone Scherfig's An Education is the 9th of the Best Picture nominees I consider as I gear up for the Academy Awards this Sunday March 7th. Like a
Dissing the Oscars – Inglorious Basterds & A Serious Man
Three more days until the Oscars and four more Best Pictures nominees to get through in my "Dissing the Oscars" series. If I'm going to look at them
Dissing the Oscars – The Hurt Locker
The worst review I could find of Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker comes from Variety. Nevertheless, it is better than the best review of The Blind
