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In his autobiography Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, J.G. Ballard raises the question Pat Buchanan asks in Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War”: Should we [i.e., Britain] have gone to war in 1939, given how ill-prepared we were, and how little we did to help Poland, to whose aid Neville Chamberlain had committed us [...]
Christopher Buckley’s short story “Cynara” reads well on the Kindle, which proves to be a good format for short fiction. Alas, it’s not such a good format for magazines — I’ve been trying out The Nation‘s e-reader edition, and it’s terrible. There’s no proper table of contents, only section links. And again, not being able [...]
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Despite arguing a few months ago that the iPhone could already do most of what I might want a Kindle to do, I’ve lately come around to the virtues of e-readers. More than that, I’ve actually bought a refurbished Kindle. What prompted me to do so was seeing that the 12-volume works of Edmund Burke [...]
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