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Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” The Greeks were fond of conundrums. “If God is omnipotent,” they asked, “can He make a rock so big…
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"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor," reminded Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century man of letters. "Even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would...
Reading frightening books helps youngsters deal with their fears, says bestselling Irish author John Connolly. I have a clear memory of arguing with a school friend about which Stephen King novel was the most frightening....
Zadie SmithWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don’t know where to put them. It’s a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan...
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promise Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who...
Eek – could these big old lace-up work boots fashion's way of getting a foot in the door of the next revival? Of all the pleasures Twitter has to offer, the greatest may be the bloke who comments on current events in the style...
WILLIAM YEOMAN, The West Australian November 20, 2009, 2:30 pm Book Review: Samuel Johnson: A Personal History Christopher Hibbert Palgrave Macmillan, $39.95 On meeting Samuel Johnson for the first time, most people took the...
When we began to learn about the legal emergency that puts the Persepolis Fortification Archive in peril, a colleague couldn't resist quoting Samuel Johnson's old saw: "The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind...
You can tell Ras Dumisani is a true South African by the way he shifted the blame immediately after he got the word from back home that people weren't best pleased with him. Then they gave the French guy all the good stuff to...
