By BEN SZMANDA
I’ve talked about Orhan Pamuk here before, and I always kind of dread going over one of his books; they are so dense and intricate that it is very hard to describe it properly. There is no way, for example, that I could boil down what I think is happening his work […]

By BEN SZMANDA
Last week I talked about JM Coetzee’s book Waiting for the Barbarians, suggesting that while it was a very good read, it was not my favorite work of his. My favorite would be his painful novel Age of Iron, and it’s one that I cannot recommend highly enough.
Where Waiting for the Barbarians was […]

By BEN SZMANDA
It’s maybe partly because of his country of origin that South African Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee has always shown a strong interest in the destructive results of imperialism. His disturbing parable, Waiting for the Barbarians, is one of his more definitive statements on the topic. Set on the perimeter of an imaginary […]

By Cathy S.
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DAVID COOK!!!  Most of us were surprised and some of us were “shocked.”  Some of us have been rooting for David C. since this season began and we think this win is well-deserved.  David A. fans, of course, can’t believe the outcome.

Like Simon said, it really didn’t matter which one of the Davids […]

by Ty Freer
INT. ROSCOE’S BARBERSHOP. LOS ANGELES. DAY.
KOBE BRYANT, DEREK FISHER, LAMAR ODOM, AND PHIL JACKSON are sitting in barber’s chairs. KOBE is getting a shave, DEREK and PHIL are getting their hair cut and LAMAR is in the corner reading Mad Magazine and laughing hysterically.
PHIL: Big game we’ve got coming up tonight, guys. It’s […]