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Here are some more photos taken in 1942 by photographers in the US Office of War Information . They're part of the large collection bei...

Robert Capa 's war photographs are legendary. He has been the subject of much biographical writing and his photographs have been endles...

There are parallels and correspondences between Emerson's Brahma and Eliot's Burnt Norton , on the one hand, and Woolf's Mrs. D...

I promised to revisit my essay on Clarissa Dalloway as existentialist heroine in the context of Lucio P. Ruolto's treatment of the same...

A short time ago I noted that the Library of Congress has posted photos to a flickr page and I reproduced some photos from that collection ...

Mrs. Dalloway has many poetic sections whose meaning must be picked out, hesitantly interpreted. The novel comes close to its swing point ...

Mrs. Dalloway continues to occupy my mind. Though there's a vast amount of scholarly output on the book, until today I'd been able...

A year ago The Atlantic printed an article by Carl M. Cannon, Untruth and Consequences , detailing presidential lies over the years. He sa...

Calligraphy and paintings by Miyamoto Musashi , who wrote A Book of Five Rings (Gorin no shô) A cormorant, ink on paper A dragon (detail of...

I said that The Traveler and Mrs. Dalloway were less unlike that one might expect. Among their likenesses is an existential core which th...

As I said a couple of days ago, I mean to write something about the existentialist core of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. First I have a little...

beSpacific , the excellent legal affairs blog of Sabrina I. Pacifici, has a link to a chronological account of Nixon's secret taping sys...

About 100 people visit this blog each day and more than two-thirds land here as a result of an image search. The web is good for images. M...