The April 2013 issue (Vol. 326, No. 1955) of Harper's Magazine leads with the first chapter of John le Carré's forthcoming new novel, A Delicate Truth, followed by le Carré's afterword to the 50th anniversary edition of his breakthrough novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Unfortunately, Harper's only lets subscribers read the online versions ( Read more... )

Sometimes I despair of my love for comic books, especially my love for comic books produced by “The Big Two” comics publishers in the U.S. (DC and Marvel); and sometimes, once in a great while, I read something that justifies my love (uh...), not to say reinforces and encourages it.

The latest such example: The DC Vertigo series The Losers, ( Read more... )

Thanks to my desktop PC's increasing debility -- hey, it's a veritable museum piece, considering the fact that I bought it brand-spanking-new at end of the summer of 2004 (*grumble, grumble*) -- I was finally nudged into purchasing a laptop. It's refurbished, and it has Windows Vista (*boo, hiss*), but the price was right. Maybe someday I'll even ( Read more... )

Ohh, I don't know how much more my blood pressure can take of the presidential election coverage.

First, a couple of stories on Tina Fey's alter ego, Sarah Palin. First one was posted on Politico.com this past Saturday, 25 October ("Palin allies report rising camp tension" by Ben Smith):

( Not 'commando,' Sarah! 'Rogue!' 'ROGUE!' )

The current issue of Harper's Magazine (April 2006; Vol. 312, No. 1871) has a shortish panel discussion entitled "American Coup d'Etat: Military Thinkers Discuss the Unthinkable;" I say "shortish" because, while the piece runs from p. 43 to p. 50, the transcript of the forum proper only runs from pps. 44-50, and the transcript only takes up the ( Read more... )