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In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such...
Erin Helyard is conducting Pinchgut Opera's L'Ormindo in Sydney. Co-artistic director Erin Helyard, in jeans and green gingham shirt, is conducting from the harpsichord. Neal Peres da Costa, who holds the chair in early music...
The National Book Foundation named Flannery O’Connor’s “The Complete Stories” as the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction, on Wednesday during National Book Awards Week. The results came from an online poll in which voters...
Gary says: I’m reading the latest Thomas Pynchon book, Inherent Vice, and he makes reference to this song. It’s like Tiny Tim is tripping on acid, entertaining children, and predicting global warming — all at once....
Last June Colum McCann mingled through the crowded terrace of an opulent home near the top of Little Woody Creek Road. He was jovial, relaxed. His latest novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” had been released that week. It’s...
W hile much of the media’s attention over this year’s Nobel Prizes was over Barack Obama’s shock Nobel Peace Prize Award, a similarly contentious (if more under the radar) Nobel Prize went to Romanian/German author Herta...
Irish-born writer's novel Let the Great World Spin, focused on Philippe Petit's World Trade Centre tightrope walk, acclaimed as 'gravity-defying feat' Colum McCann won the fiction prize at the National Book awards in New York...
Rick Attig, The Oregonian: It's hard to know what to make of the report in Wednesday's Oregonian that regulators have signed off on every rate increase by Oregon's largest health insurance companies... [[ This is a content...
Writer-guitarist Greg Tate was shy about conducting Burnt Sugar at the Blue Note last night, not stepping out front of his troupe to guide them (kinda like President O waiting for Congress to decide...
Orwell's book is one of the most famous in the English language, with perennially enormous sales, film adaptations, introductions by Thomas Pynchon. Hardly anybody has ever heard of Katharine Burdekin nor her novel, published...
