Had he been a vampire, Bram Stoker would have been 165-years-old today. Happy Birthday, Bram, from me and from Google:
Nwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
If you’ve got a Kindle or a device running a Kindle app, check out novelist Colm Tóibín‘s sharp introduction, On Dracula, which includes a copy of the novel. (Remember that Stoker was Irish.) If you want a hard copy, head over to UK Amazon, where you can buy a paperback or one of the few remaining limited edition hardcovers.
My review of Philip Hoare's latest book, The Sea Inside, appeared recently in The National, Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper. It bore the headline "Deep connections: Philip Hoare's seminal encounter with a blue whale," and you can find it here. The book is a...
The New York Times has published a brief letter that I wrote in response to an op-ed piece entitled "The War in Washington Square" by my NYU colleague Jeff Goodwin, who is a professor of sociology. Here's the text of my letter as they published it: I have been working...
I'm a little less confused than I've been. In my post "Disagreeing with the Vote of No Confidence," I was struck by the number 682 -- the number of voters eligible to participate in last week's FAS vote of no confidence in President Sexton. I noted that "my wife, who...
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