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Karl Whitney — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:19:16 +0000

My review of Christian Salmon’s Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind is now online at 3:AM Magazine here.

Karl Whitney — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:57:45 +0000

Things have been, and continue to be, quite hectic as I work on the final stages of my PhD.
In the meantime, post Lisbon Treaty, have a look at how the Irish are being portrayed in a cartoon by Jeff Danziger, with commentary from Laura, here.

Karl Whitney — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:57:55 +0000

I review Adam Braver’s novel about the day of JFK’s assassination, November 22, 1963, on 3:AM here.

Karl Whitney — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:50:24 +0000

My review of Michael Sorkin’s very good book on New York urbanism, ‘Twenty Minutes in Manhattan’, is on the 3:AM Magazine website here.

Karl Whitney — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:51:13 +0000

Glenn Beck on The Coming Insurrection here.

Karl Whitney — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Blogging has never been a daily habit for me, but the gaps between posts on this site are now kind of ridiculous. Um. That is all. I guess I’ve just fallen out of the habit, is all. Doubtless, more will be forthcoming once I find my blogging voice again. In the meantime, I recommend this New Yorker profile of a long-distance trucker who has (apparently accurately) deduced the inner components of the atomic bombs dropped over Japan at the end of the Second World War. Interesting for its portrayal of obsession, and for its interesting details about the bomb – I didn’t really know about the ‘gun mechanism’, for example.

Karl Whitney — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:32:30 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Karl Whitney — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:22:34 +0000

My article on the Beatles visit to Dublin in November 1963 is in the Irish Times today, here.

Karl Whitney — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:32:59 +0000

Graham Linehan tells all about how he ripped off Ricky Gervais’s The Office here.

Karl Whitney — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:02:13 +0000

Jonathan Raban’s recent Granta article about the American Northwest and the wilderness is available on his site here. It traces the impact white America has had on the essentially wild character of the landscape, including the development of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Richland Nuclear Facility and the vineyards of Eastern Washington State.