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Contributed by Wyatt Mason
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Should novelists respond to their critics? That was the question of a trio of posts from a few weeks back under the title, "An Egg in Return" (1, 2, 3). . . .
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Contributed by Diana Trilling
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J. R. Ackerley's My Father and Myself is the simplest, most directly
personal report of what it is like to be a homosexual that, to my
knowledge, has yet been published. This in itself makes it
sufficiently noteworthy. But it also appears in the same year as
Philip Roth's spectacularly popular Portnoy's Complaint, a
collocation which, although fortuitous; adds enormously to its
interest. I am not suggesting that the two books, or their authors,
have much in common. On the contrary. Mr. Roth is American, Ackerley
is English. Mr. Roth's book is fiction, a work of the imagination;
Ackerley's is half-memoir, half a reconstruction of his father's
life. Mr. Roth is a young man, from whom we can expect other books;
Ackerley is dead-he was born in 1896 and died in 1967; until this
posthumous publication his reputation rested on four books, in
particular on two small volumes regarded in his own country as minor
classics but little known in America: Hindoo Holiday, first
published in 1932, a journal of his visit to India as
secretary-companion to a Maharajah, and My Dog Tulip, published in
1956, a remarkable account of his relations with a beloved Alsatian. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Back in November, I decided to take a look at the investigation that Congress had demanded be undertaken by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General (DHS IG) looking into Maher Arar. Arar, a Canadian software engineer had been vacationing with his wife and family on the Mediterranean when business called him home abruptly. He booked a flight to Montreal which required him to change planes at JFK in New York. He was apprehended by American authorities, who had been tipped by Canadian intelligence (falsely, as it turns out) that Arar was connected to an Al Qaeda cell. Arar was rushed through a series of extraordinary quick proceedings, put on a plane to Jordan and turned over to Syria, where he was tortured. A year later he came back to Canada. The Canadian government did an exhaustive study of the case, concluded they were in the wrong and gave Arar a $10 million payment in compensation. But what did the Bush Administration do? . . .
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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"Over the past two months, Obama has in slow stages backed away from his 20-year association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, first criticizing some of his statements but clinging to their friendship, then strongly condemning those words and finally severing his ties to Wright's former church," David Broder wrote today in the Washington Post. "The net result has been to smudge one of the main clues voters had been given to Obama's fundamental values and beliefs, and to create a new aura of mystery about this man." . . .
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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For anyone tracking the infamous Michelle Obama/whitey videotape, check out the latest from David Weigel of Reason, who has now completely exposed Larry Johnson: . . .
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