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Reading: 28 July-3 August 2013

July 29, 2013 by Ana Maria Caballero

Ana Maria Caballero, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 29 July 2013 I bought The Good Thief by Marie Howe because it was the only poetry book I found for sale at the Miami International Airport’s outpost of Books & Books, South Florida’s beloved independent bookseller. In part, I also bought it because of the very pretty reproduction of Rothko’s “Light, Earth and Blue” on its cover, and I have a weakness for […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: George Saunders, New York Times

Reading: 21-27 July 2013

July 24, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 23 July 2013 After reading numerous perspectives on the Florida v. George Zimmerman trial – thanks to a friend on Facebook who also happens to be an attorney – I read an article from The New Yorker which poses the question “What Should Trayvon Martin Have Done?” Of course the answer to the question reveals what side of the conflict you […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: documentaries, Florida, law, New Yorker, Supreme Court, torture

Reading: 14-20 July 2013 ZiR

July 18, 2013 by fritztucker

Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 18 July 2013 A new documentary “The Act of Killing” about the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia was just released. An article in Gawker describes some of the making of it: Director Joshua Oppenheimer had Indonesian gangsters stage reenactments of the mass killings they took part in during the 1965-1966 anti-communist purge, which left an estimated half million people dead, complete with their own scripts, elaborate […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: genocide

Reading: 7 July-13 July 2013 ZiR

July 7, 2013 by William Eaton

William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 7 July 2013 Reading various things in the process of preparing an essay on Plato’s dialogue Lysis, the foremost subject of which is φιλία (philia), which in this context has traditionally been translated as “friendship.” Thus a week of readings related to friendship beckons. A first bit—or salvo—from a journal entry of Thoreau’s, November 3, 1858: Nothing makes me so dejected as […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Aristotle, cancer, desire, evil, friends, friendship, Ian Craib, Plato, success, Thoreau

Reading: 30 June-6 July 2013 ZiR

July 2, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 30 June and 1 July 2013 This weekend was a series of outings into the culinary adventures of New York City, walks in the hot sun and the gleeful return to the cool relief of air conditioning, and finally, a few BBC films. The first was called “Hawking” and told the story of Stephen Hawking‘s time at Cambridge, where he made his first great discovery. The second […]

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