Twelve humanities scholars create a tool for publishing ebooks from wordpress in a single week. Amazing!
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It is Mayan time keeping and mathematics that has most fascinated me.  I think the accuracy of their timekeeping was due an accident of the latitudes in which they lived in Mexico.  Apparently this regions is in one of the few latitudes where the sun is directly overhead for two days (and not just one day) a year (but, don’t ask me which)… Continue reading

Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature’s complicated relationship with technology, at once beautiful and menacing Continue reading

The Marxist provocateur and bestselling philosopher on communism, poststructural theory and his reluctance to play poster boy for the fashionable European left Continue reading

The novelist introduces an excerpt from his new memoir with a meditation on the fragile building blocks of our lived experience

Read an excerpt from Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks

from In the Flesh Continue reading

The rare power and intensity of Frida Kahlo’s work makes Google’s decision to honour her on its homepage richly deserved Continue reading

A reading of Eliot’s poem about a crying girl. Continue reading

Not a story about me through their eyes then.  Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out.  Here then is a maze to begin, be in.
Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid