Public Library 20.11
Kabul: City Number One – Part 5 – Intercontinental. Part five of Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan expands on the (failed) westernisation of Afghanistan.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Website. Includes all RLS’s written works.
Michael Wood on Roland Barthes. A retrospective look at the French literary theorist/philospher/semiotician in the context of two new releases by him. From the London Review of Books.
NZ author, Witi Ihimaera, gets caught plagiarising in his novel, The Trowenna Sea. As it turns out, 0.4% of the novel is plagiarism. Worth worrying about? The book reviewer who discovered the plagiarism, Jolisa Gracewood, discusses.
The Evolution of the God Gene. Interesting points on looking at religion as an evolved behaviour. From the NY Times.
Bad Sex in Fiction Prize. Extracts from the shortlist, from The Guardian. It’s like some of these authors write with the intention of making it onto this list.
Related posts: