Blog Profile / Slate - The Book Club
| URL : | http://www.slate.com/id/2192509/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Books | |
| Posts on Regator: | 127 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.5 | |
| Archived Since: | June 9, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Children of Pahiatua
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A fish restaurant in New Zealand seemed an odd place to discuss a war that took place several thousand miles away and several decades ago, but there we were: Sea bream was served, sauvignon blanc was poured, the...Show More Summary
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Game of Thrones, Season 3
Every week in the Game of Thrones TV Club, Rachael Larimore will IM with a different fan of the show about the goings-on in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea. This week she chats with Slate senior project manager (and huge George R.R. Martin fan) Chris Schieffer.
I’m Telling Your Imam
A few days ago, Canadian police arrested two Muslim men for plotting an attack on a passenger train. The crucial player in the story was an imam in Toronto. The imam wasn’t a conspirator. He was an informant. According to a local attorney, the imam had noticed one of the men trying “to approach young Muslims” with extremist propaganda. Show More Summary
Stop Saying That Men Don’t Read Women
It has become a truism that “men don’t read women.” The assertion is taken as self-evident by feminist publications like Salon (“while women read books written by men, men do not tend to reciprocate”) and shown anecdotally by blogs.Show More Summary
The Bombing Suspects Are Literally Caucasian
The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been identified as brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Their family apparently originated in Chechnya, in the northern part of the Caucasus Mountains. In 2008, Explainer addressed the question of why we refer to white people as Caucasian. The original story is below.
Chechnya. Kyrgyzstan. The Caucasus.
The hunt for Boston Marathon terrorist suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev is reintroducing the American public to the confused ethnic, linguistic, religious, and political history of the Caucasus region. A few questions and some answers.
The World’s Most Indifferent Body
The Senate has scheduled a vote for Thursday to officially open debate on gun control legislation. Many senators, if not most, have already publicly stated their views on gun control. Do senators ever change their minds because of speeches made during Senate debate?
Weren’t We Supposed to Have Laser Guns by Now?
The Navy on Monday announced plans to defend its ships in the Persian Gulf by equipping one with a laser. We’ve been hearing about laser warfare for decades, but this is the first deployment of a solid-state laser weapon. Why has it taken so long to develop deployable laser weapons?
Top of the Lake
In Slate’s Top of the Lake TV Club, Dan Kois will IM about each episode of Jane Campion’s Kiwi miniseries with another fan of the show. This week, he chats with Michelle Dean, who recently wrote about the show on The Awl.
Nashville, Season 1
Every week in Slate’s Nashville TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different Nashville fan. This week, she rehashes episode 1.16 with June Thomas, a Slate culture critic.
Postcards From Camp
One of the very few things that Susan Sontag got right about camp is that it does not much care for the “linear, consecutive” confines of a traditional essay. This intractability results from the fact that camp is, as Sontag put it,Show More Summary
How Good Is a $30,000 Bottle of Wine?
Testimony began this week in billionaire William Koch’s lawsuit against Eric Greenberg, who Koch claims sold him some very expensive counterfeit wine. (Mike Steinberger wrote a detailed investigation of the case for Slate in 2010.) Some of the bottles went for nearly $30,000, which has Koch so miffed that he refuses to settle the case. Show More Summary
Is George Will Homophobic?
In a conservative movement seized by extremists, George Will is one of the sane ones. But his recent rejection of social science as having any role to play in the gay marriage debate is wildly off the mark. It’s intellectually dishonest, scientifically ignorant, and—I’ll say it—anti-gay.
Why Do We Suspend Misbehaving Students?
Several schools have suspended children for joking about guns in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. A 7-year-old in Maryland was suspended for chewing a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun, while others have received the same punishment for pointing their fingers like guns or using toy guns that blow bubbles. Show More Summary
“We Can't Be the Nanny”
Singapore—Lee Kuan Yew founded Singapore and built the city-state from virtually nothing into a thriving economy and a leading Asian financial center. His son, Lee Hsien Loong, has been prime minister since 2004 and is grappling with...Show More Summary
Hugo’s Shadow
Sixty years ago this week, Stalin died. His daughter, Svetlana, remembered the Soviet dictator's final moments:
The Culture Gabfest: I Guess We Should Ask You for Money Edition
Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 233 with David Haglund, Mark Harris, Dana Stevens, and Forrest Wickman by clicking the arrow on the audio player below
What Places Have the Worst Commutes?
If Slate’s Farhad Manjoo can’t persuade Marissa Mayer to allow Yahoo workers to work at home, perhaps the map above can. Created by WNYC’s John Keefe and based on data from the American Community Survey, it shows average commute times by ZIP code. Show More Summary
Why Do We Hate Successful Women?
It’s one of our current ironies that the same liberal people complaining that there are not enough women CEOs seem to harbor a special contempt for the women CEOs we do have. We like to say there aren’t enough women in the higher echelons of spectacularly successful business people, but when women do rise to those echelons, we attack them for that spectacular success.