December 2010
7 posts
The Internet and the Humanities →
The New York Times is running a fantastic series about how the Internet is changing scholarship.
Lord of Misrule: A Good Time for Good Books →
Creativity 2010 →
“Know thyself, then get thy shit done.”
– Anonymous
What the Twilight Says
“By writers even as refreshing as Graham Greene, the Caribbean is looked at with elegiac pathos, a prolonged sadness to which Lévi-Strauss has supplied an epigraph: Tristes Tropiques. Their tristesse derives from an attitude to the Caribbean dusk, to rain, to uncontrollable vegetation, to the provincial ambition of Caribbean cities where brutal replicas of modern architecture dwarf the...
Create Dangerously
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. Coming from where I come from, with the history I have — having spent the first twelve years of my life under both dictatorships of...
Running the Dusk by Christian Campbell →
A stunning poetry collection by Trinidadian-Bahamian poet and professor at the University of Toronto.