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Poetry Ariana Reines

To Write in an Ugly Way

April 29, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

 The poetry of Ariana Reines, of which I’ve written over the last two weeks, can sometimes feel eerily adolescent. Eery because her poetry is very adult in its intelligence, but pubescent in its affected interactions with the world. To me, it is the poetic version of the hit HBO series “Girls.” Drunk sex lives around the corner from Reines’s smart, prose-like poems. The following piece is a good example of this:   Glass Formalism and grammar are ways to be thin. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, writing

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García Márquez’s brief manual for children

April 28, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Last week I found myself, like many others, looking for quotes by Gabriel García Márquez to remember him after his death. Among the things I found is a brief text titled “Manual para ser niño” (an essay on children’s educational rights, El Tiempo, Bogotá, 9 October 1995). In it, the Colombian novelist seems to recognize children’s natural and healthy appetite for things they enjoy. Since I couldn’t find an English version of this essay, I will be sharing my very own home-made […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, Gabriel García Márquez

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“There is no rigorous definition of rigor”

April 27, 2014 by William Eaton

The quotation of this post’s title is from Morris Kline, one of the great writers about mathematics. Kline, who died in 1992 and taught at New York University from 1938 to 1975, published a number of books — e.g. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (from which the quote comes); Mathematics: A Cultural Approach, and Mathematics in Western Culture — that continue to be worth reading. Recently I returned to Kline’s Mathematics for the Nonmathematician with an idea that it would help me brush up my rude understanding of […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: intellectual history, mathematics, psychology, science, Western civilization

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Breaking Gender Stereotypes, One Eagle Huntress at a Time

April 26, 2014 by William Eaton

Today I was going to highlight the most recent development in the saga of student’s trying to hold universities accountable for their handling of sexual assault cases, as 23 Students File Complaint Against Columbia for Mishandling Rape. But every now and then this topic becomes too sobering to continuously discuss. Instead, today, I present you with this little gem from the BBC Magazine section: A 13-Year-Old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia. Of course there are so many things that could be controversial about this […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: rape, sexual assault

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Falling in Love with a Donkey – Part I of II

April 24, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the first of two reviews. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes in 1879. The short (80 pp) Victorian travelogue was a best seller. It gave Stevenson financial freedom.  He earned  a reputation as a good writer, paving the way for his first major success, Treasure Island, followed by the novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  and Kidnapped, both published in 1886. Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey – the Kindle edition is currently free […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: Robert Louis Stevenson, travel

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Ariana Reines Lit Poetry

Success

April 22, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

    This marks my second post on controversial poet Ariana Reines.  I brought along her book “Mercury ” on a recent trip to New York City and took some shots of it, with the city as backdrop. Reines writes as if she were speaking, albeit in a disjointed way. To read her is to read youth and rebellion, but also wisdom gained via sharp, inquisitive observation. She has attracted the attention of the poetry community, in part because she […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, New York City, poetry, reading, writing

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The Groups We Belong To

April 21, 2014 by Walter Cummins

The Groups We Belong To   By Walter Cummins   Review of The Big Picture: America in Panorama, from the collection of Josh Sapan (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) {Click for pdf wherein, inter alia, the pictures are larger}   The Big Picture: America in Panorama celebrates both the possibilities of the panoramic camera and the manner in which the United States organized itself during the decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The people pictured are arranged […]

Categories: Review • Tags: photography

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I never followed Oz because it seemed unreal

April 21, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

The difference between fairy and wonder tales I recently stumbled upon an old print of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz (1944). I’ve never been interested enough in the book to finish it, but the introduction is an exciting thing to read. In it, Baum distinguishes between fairy tales and wonder tales, and places Oz in the latter. The classic fairy tale, he says (almost in a prophetic tone), filled many “childish” hearts with joy, Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, fairy tales

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How to get published after you’re dead?

April 20, 2014 by William Eaton

In a footnote on page 609 of Alfred Habegger’s My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, I find: In 1903, traveling in Europe with Sue [Emily’s sister-in-law], Martha [one of Emily’s nieces] married Captain Alexander E. Bianchi, supposedly of the Imperial Horse Guard of St. Petersburg. The captain accompanied his bride to America, ran through her money, cooled his heels in a New York jail, and vanished. After this costly misadventure, Martha took a keen […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Kant, Marx, poetry

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