Strange Fruit

Reprint of a WSWS review.

Terrence Malick - The Works

Heidegger And Poetry

According to George Steiner.

Bryan Magee On The Misuses Of Religion

"I see religion as a way of avoiding fundamental problems that have arisen because we don't know certain very basic things about our own lives which I think are unknowable. I'm against that kind of false self-consolation. It prevents people really confronting the harsh reality of our situation." He says that as a child an early appreciation of this harsh reality would upset him. "I sometimes used to feel it was threatening my mental health. But I feel we ought to grapple with things and not evade and I certainly feel that about philosophers. I feel there is a professional obligation not to seek consolation. This is certainly part of what philosophy is for."

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/jun/07/classicalmusicandopera.interviews

An American In Istanbul

Cambridge University Press reprints an American classic: