Archive for November 4th, 2010
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books
via nybooks.com I thought I was going to hate it and then lose my admiration for Smith as a writer. But that didn’t happen. Though she draws from Jaron Lanier, who she mistakenly calls as an early innovator of the Internet (he’s really an innovator of virtual reality), she doesn’t really import his reactionary rhetoric […]
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Atheism and the Enlightenment: In the name of godlessness | The Economist
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment. By Philipp Blom. Basic Books; 384 pages; $29.95. To be published in Britain in March by Weidenfeld & Nicolson as “Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris”; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, buy from Amazon.co.uk ATHEISM is a hot topic. In recent years writers from […]
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