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January 2005

30: The Discovery of Heaven

24: NYRB on Susan Sontag

24: Writing of Passion

21: Peaceful Societies

21: dangerousmeta! On this inauguration day,

19: A Reading Diary

18: The Paris Review - All the Interviews

17: Thoughts on Hotel Rwanda

16: Pattern Recognition

15: Quotes from Alberto Manguel

14: Emotion and decision

12: The Newspaper Appreciation as Death Kit

10: Writing Differences

08: Susan Sontag (1933-2004) by Gary Indiana

07: Something better not left unsaid

07: Hitchens remembers an intellectual heroine

07: Susan Sontag Retrospective at New York Times

07: Susan Sontag | Regarding the Torture of Others

07: Now We Are All Torturers

07: Edge 2005 Question: Believe but Cannot Prove

07: EmptyBottle.org: Bird, Mountains

06: Ivan Illich Retrospective

06: Virtue in ruling through absurdist antics

05: Einstein's Dreams

04: The Bookshop

04: Craig Seligman's Postscript on Susan Sontag

04: Meditation Restructures the Brain

03: In my head

02: Timoleon Vieta Come Home

02: 100 years of Einstein

02: New Year's Greeting

02: Nature magazine describes the science of the quake

01: Dave Bonta points us to Artur Lundkvist's 'Agadir'

01: Loren points us to Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

01: Language Hat offers Stevenson on New Years