All human activity is a cry for forgiveness -- Karl Barth

Infrastructure for souls
An ant under a microscope
Tom Waits talks about LA
Tom Waits collaborates with tapes for Dylan
Treating bookshelves as art
A soundtrack for Cormac McCarthy
Malcolm Gladwell, the outsider
The case for a journalism of frustration
Mythic image of the century: car crash
Biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Conservatives win in European election
A fence of bees, defense against elephants
Writerly advice, like, "write about a real boy."
Labour Party a tragedy of shakespearian proportions
Iggy Pop on French lit and death's prelude
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
Architecture and theory of public spaces
Gideon Strauss: What do US Evangelicals need?
The self-destructing Labour Party -- a history of the story
Military spending increases with "war on terror" justification
Let the rich bury the rich. All I can do is destroy their language.
Anxiety and influence and designing books for David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace and the escape from fraudulence and despair