Arts and Letters Daily - O Site

O ALDaily é um site que nos remete a artigos importantes, influentes, bem escritos, e também a algumas (poucas) coisas meio duvidosas, mas vamos ficar nos elogios.... Lendo o site pela primeira vez depois de umas duas semanas de ausência, deparei-me com um exagero de coisas boas, das quais vou indicar algumas aqui e agora. A estrutura do site é assim:

“Culture – literature and the other arts – are functionally significant features of human evolution.” Joseph Carroll and other thinkers on the power of Darwin’s thought today... more» (O link em “more” nos remete ao original - nesse caso, a revista Forbes - geralmente de livre consulta)

Prosseguindo, minha passagem por lá me levou a:

Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America’s intellectual elite. As Eric Kaufmann explains, this was because he was actually rather normal... more»

John Updike, novelist, man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and life’s adventures, is dead... AP ... NYT ... Telegraph ... Guardian ... NYT ... London Times ... WP ... New Yorker ... LA Times ... Guardian ... TPM ... Boston Globe ... London Times ... National Post ... WSJ ... LA Times ... Guardian ... Forbes ... SF Chron ... Slate ... Guardian ... Philly Inq ... TLS ... Independent ... Weekly Standard ... New Republic ... Guardian ... Michael Dirda ... Morris Dickstein

What does a woman want? Does she know? Does science know? Is this a deeply unanswerable question?... more» (artigaço sobre sexualidade humana, especialmente a feminina)

It was brutal, heroic, and a victory for the longbow. How did the Battle of Agincourt look through the eyes of an archer?... more» O Wall Street Journal mandando ver na crítica literária

Edgar Allan Poe was also a player of hoaxes, a plagiarist, and substance abuser. But oh, how he could write... more»

He smashed the china, soiled sheets, sunbathed nude, and was either drunk or stoned. Arthur Rimbaud was an impossible house guest... more»

W.H. Auden, E.M. Forster, William Empson, and Philip Larkin: four men who lived and died by, with, and for the English language. Steven Isenberg had lunch with them all... more»

For Simon Schama, the American story is a compelling one. New plot lines may now emerge, but we’ve known the central character for a very long time... more»

In New York, Herbert Spencer was feted at a Delmonico’s banquet. The fawning tributes bored him, while his audience was baffled by his speech... more» O Wall Street Journal mandando ver de novo...

Our DNA deals each of us a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes: curiosity, ambition, empathy, love of novelty or security. For Steven Pinker, it’s my genome, myself... more» Pinker no NY Times

Hannah Arendt is still a thinker for our time, says Adam Kirsch: a time when failed states have again and again become the settings for mass murder... more»

Who Checks the Spell-Checkers? Microsoft Word’s dictionary is old and outdated, says Chris Wilson... more»

Printing – electricity – radio – antibiotics: after them, nothing was the same. Intellectual impresario John Brockman asks a select group of thinkers, “What will change everything?”... more» A revista Edge traz sempre alguma coisa boa...

Kafkaesque: the nonchalant intrusion of the bizarre and horrible into everyday life, the subjection of ordinary people to an inscrutable fate... more»

Disraeli, with his olive complexion and coal black eyes, was an English Jew at a time when being English and Jewish was inconceivable... more»

Did the universe exist before it existed, bouncing back even then from a previous collapse and bounce? Ad infinitum... more» A New Scientist ataca outra vez...

Leopold Bloom: son, father, lover, friend, warrior, man at arms – ordinary, yet a “complete human being.” Everyman for Modernism, says Peter Gay... more»

Darwinian science does not offer easy answers to all the pressing social questions of the day. But evolution gives social science a new start... more» artigo da revista Economist

Abd al-Rahman’s Muslim Iberia was much advanced over Western Christendom in 800. If Charles Martel had lost at Poitiers, the world would be better off... more»

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