Archive for June, 2009
Juan Enriquez: The Next Boom, by Zipcode
There is no rescuing this economy from our debt, denial and epic implosions like General Motors and the city of Detroit. …
Alfred Gusenbauer: Euro-Socialism in America
Maybe we're all European Socialists now, after all the US borrowing and bailouts. An Austrian leftist and American rightist New Gingrich seem to agree.
Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland: the Novel of the Age
Joseph O'Neill's acclaimed novel Netherland, about the cult of cricket among the post-colonial populations of New York, can be taken as a parable of reconciliation and renewal in the Age of Obama.
Thoreau’s Fire: the Spark of "Walden"
"Woodsburner" was the taunt whispered about Henry David Thoreau when as an idle 26-year-old, the now-iconic environmentalist burned down 300 acres of his home town. It was the crisis that made him a writer, explains the novelist John Pipkin.
Ken Robinson & John Maeda: Creativity for Breakfast
Teaching Creativity: at the Rhode Island School of Design commencement, John Maeda and Ken Robinson track art as "a process, not an event... a surprise, not a prediction."
Calabash 2009: A View of Us in the Age of Obama
Jamaica's literary festival, Calabash, with a penetrating gaze on America, likes everything it sees in the Age of Obama.
