Chuaigh Lena agus mise ag dul Naomh Monica Dé Domhnaigh seo caite. Chonaic muid an drama nua de réir na hAirm Phoblachtach Ëireannach agus...

  It's difficult for those of us saturated in social and print and online media to keep up with anti-free speech demands. British ...

" Iconic photo of Marina Ginestà on top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona ." So says the Wikimedia caption. This was posted on my FB ...

Two headlines shared last Sunday's New York Times ' front page. On the left, the feature: "Brooklyn Fire Kills 7 Children, Wo...

  As I wrote two months ago about the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and their tragic aftermath for my friend's free-speech Irish-themed site...

A few years ago I blogged on genetic studies conducted in Britain attempting to find out how many of the native population possessed Saxon...

  To follow up my post two days ago, I wondered about reaction to "Where the Bodies Are Buried" in the New Yorker of 3/16/15 b...

My friends Anthony and Carrie McIntyre have been interviewed, among many others, in the current issue (dated today) of The New Yorker...

Chuir mé suíomh saor ina teanga na h-Iodáil ar an ghreasan le déanaí. B'fhéidir, mbéidh Léna agus misé ag dul go h-Iodáil go luath....

My family's sent books to California state prisoners who have received them torn apart, or never gotten them at all. Books are often...

  While I figured Tom McCarthy's new novel, Satin Island ( reviewed in the L.A. Times ) might be too much to take on given my bu...

Last year I reviewed Nikil Saval's Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace . Although annoyed by the subtitle, increasingly used to m...

  I've finished the 40-hour audiobook of Gravity's Rainbow . I had reviewed the book a few years back, when at last I figured I wa...

I found this tribute at the libertarian communist site Libcom , not an oxymoron. It's full of current or archival material docume...

I've been very busy with the new term and teaching and mentoring. So, not much downtime to ruminate. So, for the record, a quick entry...