what was new in june 2005

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1. monday 27 june 2005

   • Lawrence Durrell on passion which says nothing
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   • Lawrence Durrell on flavour without character
   • Lawrence Durrell on being careful with God
   • John H Pryor, the winds and the frontiers of Islam
   • The Girl in the Cafe
   • Bill Nighy
   • scriptwriters
   • Richard Curtis
   • Lawrence Durrell
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2. sunday 26 june 2005

   • Eric Hoffer and "The True Believer"
   • religious psychotherapy clients
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3. friday 24 june 2005

   • Robert Alter and the translation of the Hebrew scriptures
   • Robert Alter on bland Bible translations
   • Robert Alter on the Hebrew of the Old Testament
   • biblical studies
   • biblical scholars
   • Robert Alter
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4. thursday 23 june 2005

   • Laurence Durrell on the illusions of the dying Cohen in The Alexandria Quartet
   • Laurence Durrell on what remains when we die
   • The Alexandria Quartet
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5. sunday 19 june 2005

   • D H Lawrence on the seductions of the English countryside
   • Peter France on the salons as a model for contemporary conversation
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6. saturday 18 june 2005

   • Henry Perowne's mother and her swimming in Ian McEwan's "Saturday"
   • Ian McEwan on tyrants as children
   • Ian McEwan on passions needing space for their expression
   • Ian McEwan on the exposure of weakness in games
   • Ian McEwan on the human race as orphans
   • Ian McEwan on slowing down to read poetry
   • Ian McEwan on the smile of a self-conscious liar
   • Ian McEwan on the luxury of a shower
   • Ian McEwan on moments of magic in music
   • Ian McEwan on how easily the trappings of a lifetime can be junked
   • Harry Mount on boredom
   • J. M. Coetzee on Daniel Defoe's use of the particular
   • Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and ‘innerness’
   • the development of formal proof
   • Ian McEwan on Saul Bellow's Herzog
   • Saul Bellow's Herzog on what it means to be a man
   • Peter Ridell on post-war British general election results
   • the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on film
   • J. M. Coetzee on American curiosity about Psyche
   • J. M. Coetzee on the loss of the gods
   • J. M. Coetzee on sentences hinging on the word 'because'
   • J. M. Coetzee on seeing the pattern
   • Simon Hoggart on what Tony Blair's eyes reveal
   • David Schiff on Shostakovitch's Fourth Symphony
   • Merold Westphal's appropriation of postmodern thought
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7. friday 17 june 2005

   • the future of radio
   • the French sociologist Raymond Boudon
   • Michel Foucault and negative theology
   • Ian McEwan on modern professional life
   • Ian McEwan on the risks of air travel
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8. thursday 16 june 2005

   • the invention of Velcro
   • Velcro
   • Georges de Mestral
   • inventions
   • Daniel Gilbert on flourishing in difficult circumstances
   • Daniel Gilbert
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9. tuesday 14 june 2005

   • the remarkable cast of Renoir's ‘Partie de Campagne’
   • Guy de Maupassant
   • Une Partie de Campagne (story)
   • the short story
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10. monday 13 june 2005

    • Levinas & the religious prohibition of images
    • Emmanuel Levinas
    • journals
    • ‘Literature & Theology‘
    • Straw Dogs
    • Dustin Hoffman
    • Sam Peckinpah
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11. sunday 12 june 2005

    • Partie de Campagne (film)
    • La Règle du Jeu
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12. friday 10 june 2005

    • The Right Stuff
    • Tom Wolfe
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13. thursday 9 june 2005

    • Paul Ricoeur on the fullness of language
    • 'Blindness'
    • José Saramago
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14. wednesday 8 june 2005

    • Dan R. Stiver on reader-response theory
    • Dan R. Stiver on Gadamer's view of the humanities
    • the loneliness of Justine in The Alexandra Quartet
    • The Village
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15. tuesday 7 june 2005

    • 8½
    • Federico Fellini