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...Academic tomes about lesbian and gay studies nestle alongside gay personal finance books and travel guides. The selection spans the Dewey Decimal System, with books selected not for their specific subject matter, their intellectual approach or even their merit, but rather for their presumed appeal to gay and lesbian readers. That appeal, moreover, is calculated as narrowly as possible, so that the mere mention of gayness in a book's title qualifies it for admission. A reader's understanding of homosexuality might be profoundly influenced by Nabokov's Pale Fire or the tales of Henry James, or by Shakespeare...
Civilized as he was, and ostentatiously well- read, Montaigne could be crude and hilarious (about sex and other bodily functions, for example) in a way that would make the 21st-century reader feel right at home. I like to think our furious, entertaining moral arguments are doing something like Montaigne's work. I hope so. Otherwise, they are just brutal, stupid, dogmatic noise...
...response from readers and visitors to the Netaid website has been impressive: $226,272 had been donated as of last week, which included the purchase of more than 12,000 birthing kits to be distributed in Rwanda. Dr. Emmanuel d'Harcourt, the IRC coordinator in Rwanda, says women there have been "elated" by the number of kits donated. He has set up a group of more than 30 traditional birthing attendants in Kibungo, Rwanda, who will package and distribute the kits over the coming months. And D'Harcourt says the story--and reader response--has had another impact: Rwandan government...
...have a book that can change its content yet still be read like a book. You turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into a holster to fill it with another text. The ordinary reader might have a collection of several dozen leatherbound and different-size book containers, ones that mold themselves to the reader's hands and habits over many readings. "This story is formatted to be viewed on an oversize L book," it says on the first screen, and so you pick your...
...leathernecks killed in the entire war. Were it not for the atom bomb, tens of thousands of Americans and their Allies would have died during the planned invasion of Japan. If that seems too remote, think of it this way: Bradley, Greene and perhaps even you, reader, might not have been born...