False Dichotomies » The abbreviated read http://falsedichotomies.com Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes) Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:27:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Abbreviated Read (16) http://falsedichotomies.com/2009/08/13/the-abbreviated-read-16/ http://falsedichotomies.com/2009/08/13/the-abbreviated-read-16/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:27:16 +0000 Alex http://falsedichotomies.com/?p=422 1. Amazon in trouble?

2. Remembering John Updike.

3. The new Jewdas.

4. Epichorus.

5. Literary Interpretation.

6. Cronenberg does Delillo.  

7. Portnoy Gay?

8. Da Mystery of Chessboxin.

9. A Nation of Commentators.

10. Tarantino in Zion.

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2. India institutes national ID card.

3. Debating Jay-Z’s hegemony.

4. Hamas exposes sexy Zionist chewing gum plot.

5. Tim Allon.

6. The Death of Bunny Munro.

7. No Leonard Cohen in Ramallah.  

8. Fighting for African refugees in Israel.

9. Granta in Anglo-American denial.

10. Ten books to be tossed out the canon.

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2. The problem, in a nutshell.

3. Ball of confusion.

4. 7/7.

5. Cast Lead Revisited.

6. Long march in Gaza.

7. Chess, not checkers.

8. The great semi-colon debate.

9. New Zadie.

10. Tha Blaqprint.

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2. Roth remixed.

3. Al-Kamanjanti centre burnt down.

4. Chess-boxing.

5. I before E no longer in Britain.

6. How the talk became big business.

7. The world’s strictest parents.

8. Bikinis sans frontieres.

9. He’s Barack Obama.

10. Naomi Watts in Zion.

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2. Obama Foodarama. 

3. Shoes.

4. Tablet.

5. On Obama, Hijab, and Women.

6. The Humbling.  

7. Obama beach.  

8. Penis envy.

9. Convert.  

10. Smell of books.

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2. Should creative writing be taught?

3. Double-standards.

4. Seth on the Kindle.

5. The Doctor’s new companion.  

6. The Road.

7. Baskin vs Glick.

8. John Sutherland on Amis.

9. For those in Zion: the party of the year.

10. Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off penis.

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2. The Binge Trader compares the city and the IDF.

3. Therapists to the Jews.

4. George Galloway routed.

5. Home Fweet Home.  

6. Raid Gaza!

7. Kalbakken.

8. Statutory Ape.

9. Someday soon?

10. Scouse humour to the last.

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2. May: Jewish-American Heritage Month.

3. Israel’s Arab Citizens and the State.

4. Injustice.

5. For serious Jewish women.

6. Facebook Founder’s Roommate (and a mate of mine – Happy Birthday Ari!) 

7. Drogba Rap.

8. Hawking on Palestine.

9. AIPAC in under five minutes.

10. Intifada! Intifada!

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2. Shall we sing a song for you?

3. Partly Private 

4. Vox Humana

5. Shock to the System

6. The first day

7. Mazal tov, C-Mac

8. Johann’s favourite quotes

9. When underdogs break the rules

10. Stavros Flatly

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2. Wood on McEwan.

3. End the university as we know it.  

4. This is water.

5. Shaming their memory.  

6. The land of no smiles.

7. Homes from within.

8. Tel Aviv street-art.

9. Mexican Flu.

10. Salt of this sea.

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