Oprah: America’s most powerful religious leader
This review originally appeared in The Catholic Herald. Oprah: Gospel of an Icon By Kathryn Lofton University of California Press, £15.95 Kathryn Lofton is an assistant professor of American Studies...
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Review: Paul Carr, The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of Life Without Reservations
In some circles it’s considered bad form to review books in which you appear. Fortunately for you, I don’t move in those circles. Because as one of this volume’s (admittedly minor) characters, I’m...
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Eye, Robot.
It’s not every day you wake up and discover you’re disabled. And to tell the truth I didn’t really either, because my eye has been getting worse for a while. When I was about seven, I had corrective...
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Why I’ll probably never be a parent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbBtNVFjeDA I know no one rash – or arrogant – enough to claim they know the answer to the nature vs. nurture question, nor the proportional effect each has on a child’s...
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An Insight into the Criminal Mind
My briefcase was stolen last week. I wasn’t holding out much hope of ever seeing it again, but somehow the intrepid officers of the Met Police recovered it, along with some of the contents –...
View ArticleIt’s official: Sarah Palin is not running for President
I am inconsolable. That is all.
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I know I’m going to regret this…
… but I’ve signed my grandmother up to Twitter. She’s @NanaPetra. I’ve filled out her bio (I am @Nero‘s grandmother. I’m here to keep an eye on him. Former model, now a house-bound invalid) and...
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Yesterday I proposed to a woman I do not yet know intimately, but with whom I wish to share the next chapter of my life. She accepted. It will be an unconventional marriage, to say the least, but I am...
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