The Beguiling specialty bookstore is proud to present two great graphic novel events this June, appealing to the vast breadth of graphic novel aficionados in the city of Toronto! The first event features acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON–currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine–as he comes to Toronto to launch his new [...]
4
Jun
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10
Jan
We are often told that belief in God is simply a matter of personal faith, perhaps even a leap in the dark. We are entitled to our religious beliefs, but we are not intellectually justified in holding them.
The distinguished octogenarian British philosopher Anthony Flew will have none of this. His journey has been [...]
24
Dec
Duke case: Fair, smart and right from the start independent women
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryThe real Duke lacrosse scandal is that the criminal justice system was perverted because (1) a pathetic political opportunist saw his chance and took it, (2) his pandering to black voters worked in Durham County, North Carolina and (3) the politically correct/hardline feminist folks especially in the media and at Duke wanted it to be [...]
17
Dec
“Gentlemen of the Road”
by Michael Chabon
Del Rey Books, 224 pp., $21.95
Still basking in the Alaskan alpenglow of the best-selling “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” Pulitzer Prize winner and all-around bubala Michael Chabon releases a short adventure novel set in the 10th century along the Silk Road trade routes of Asia.
It’s about “Jews With Swords.”
Did that make [...]
14
Dec
Richard Brodhead targeted Hershel Parker before Duke Lacrosse
Posted by admin Published in Novel Summary“Rushing to judgment is part of Brodhead’s character. The circumstances at Duke merely brought out what anyone who knew his history could have predicted: that he had led a sheltered existence that never had called forth a display of force derived from a personal history of striving and achieving and mastering difficult information and complex [...]
14
Dec
Duke case: Fair, smart and right from the start independent women
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryThe real Duke lacrosse scandal is that the criminal justice system was perverted because (1) a pathetic political opportunist saw his chance and took it, (2) his pandering to black voters worked in Durham County, North Carolina and (3) the politically correct/hardline feminist folks especially in the media and at Duke wanted it to be [...]
14
Dec
Michael Chabon
Gentlemen of the Road
224pp. Sceptre. %26pound;12.
978 0 340 95345 9
At the end of Gentlemen of the Road, after all the derring-do is derring-done,
and the dust has settled on the corpse-strewn plains of the Caucasus,
Michael Chabon has a quiet afterword with his readers, in which he confides
that, despite the book%26rsquo;s official title, he cannot help [...]
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