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• Links 22/10/14

  Politics: The United States are focusing their air campaigns in Syria on the defence of Kobani, and meanwhile, an internal C.I.A. Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black – Everything Ends. Even Prison. Try to Focus on That.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x03 Hugs Can Be Deceiving.One of the defining features of prisons, of Litchfield, is the proximity of other people. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 15/10/14 Compact Edition

  Politics: NY Mag, on drones... in great detail.New Republic has an amazing interview with US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.War games are used to... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Frank

  

  It is a harmful and reductive misunderstanding that creative genius is directly related to childhood trauma or mental health issues. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: Richard Powers: Orfeo. Tana French: In the Woods.Tana French: Faithful Place.Tana French: Broken Harbour. Tana French: The Secret Place.Sarah Waters:... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtapes - i Saw You Dripping Moonlight.

  

  Hideaki Hamada [via tumblr]caribou | our love. blonde redhead | dripping. sinkane | how we be. first aid kit | my silver lining. esben and the witch | no dog.... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black – I Got a Chance Here, and I’m Doing It for All of Us.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x02 Looks Blue, Tastes Red.Family as a concept makes much more sense in terms of the function it performs for everyone who is part of... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Rhetorical Battles and Perpetual War

  The Obama administration surely had legal and political reasons to tiptoe around the word “war,” which evokes a visceral image of comparatively massive — and... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests

  

  “The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/09/14

  Politics: IS edition of sorts:US President Obama's speech regarding air strikes in Syria to fight and destroy IS (which may be impossible any way, but... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  At a moment when the prevailing sentiment was grief, she’d already moved on to critiquing the language, and she came across as insensitive at best. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Classic Movie Night. Love, Love, Love - What is It Good For?

  If love is an asset, a good to be sold to the highest bidder, then what happens to romantic love? It’s a question that both Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Irma La... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Defiance

  

  In Defiance, Earth in 2046 is radically transformed in many ways. It is transformed literally, the shape of the surface rendered, its fauna and flora altered... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 6/9/14 Compact Version

  Politics: In thinking about IS (ISIL/ISIS), a throwback to 2013 and "What could have been done differently in Syria?" and Slate on whether the US could have... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Non-Fiction: Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist. Fiction: Donna Tartt: The Secret History.Donna Tartt: The Little Friend.Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch.Megan Abbott: The... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Girl in the Video

  Mona Vanderwaal lives in a normal house, in a normal teenage girl room, decorated with too many dolls to count. She had a very normal mother, who baked cookies... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Half Empty, Half Full.

  

  Johann Erdmann Hummel [via tumblr]waxahatchee | grass stain. andrew bird | pulaski at night. alina simone | half of my kingdom. the front bottoms | flashlight.... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - Please Tell Me Where We’re Going.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x01 Thirsty Bird.Thirsty Bird is disorienting and terrifying. It throws the viewer into an unknown environment, into a cast of... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Poisoned Fruit

  "Self-damage"? All the literature about terrorism emphasizes that the harm directly done in an attack is nothing compared with the self-destructive reactions... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 15/08/14

  Politics: In a much discussed interview with The Atlantic, former Secretary of State and potential future Democratic candidate for the presidency in the 2016... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO