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Arts RSS FeedsRory Stewart: Why Are We in Afghanistan? - Obama and Brown rely on a hypnotising policy language which can - and perhaps will - be applied as easily to Somalia or Yemen as Afghanistan. It misleads us in several respects simultaneously: minimising differences between cultures, exaggerating our fears, aggrandising our ambitions, inflating a sense of moral obligations and power, and confusing our goals. All these attitudes are aspects of a single worldview and create an almost irresistible i...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Christopher Caldwell: Bernard Kouchner - It is Kouchner, more than anyone, who has eroded the distinction between philanthropy and combat. As a young gastroenterologist and self-described 'mercenary of emergency medicine', he helped launch Médecins sans frontières in the early 1970s. He broadcast the plight of the Vietnamese boat people in the late 1970s, advised Mitterrand in the 1980s, roused public indignation over events in Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s, and served as inte... Clancy Martin: My Life as a Drunk - On 1 January this year, at about 11 o'clock in the evening, my wife found me, feet kicking, dangling from an improvised rope - a twisted yellow sheet - about a metre off the ground in our bedroom closet. Our two-year-old daughter was in the bed, sleeping, just a few feet away . . . I was at the end of a binge. I was also at the end of three years of secret drinking, of hiding bottles and sneaking away to bars while my wife thought I was living as... Chris Mullin reports from Westminster - As I walked in through Speaker's Court, who should I see but Tony Blair, looking tanned and fit, surrounded by bag-carriers and bodyguards. Just like old times. He must be glad to be out of it. Even his considerable skills couldn't dig us out of the big, dark pit into which we have fallen.... Iain Sinclair walks the Thames - I have been brooding on Peter Ackroyd's notion that the Thames is a river like the Ganges or the Jordan, a place of pilgrimage, a source of spiritual renewal. 'The river itself becomes a tremulous deity,' he asserts. I carried Ackroyd's epic, Thames: Sacred River, as I made a series of expeditions along the permitted riverpath from mouth to source. My bias, which I will attempt to overcome, tends towards the more cynical view ascribed to William ... Donald MacKenzie on a Major Cause of the Financial Crisis - The credit crisis has inured us to gigantic numbers - losses measured in billions or trillions of dollars - but we need to pay attention to its small numbers as well if we're going to understand it properly.... Andrew O'Hagan: Chariots of Desire - Those who spend most of their lives being alert to the demands of others - and that's most employees, most husbands, wives, parents, most believers - will know the rhythmic, sedative pull of the motorways as the road performs its magic, pulling you back by degrees to some forgotten individualism that the joys and vexations of community always threatened to turn into an upholstered void. Virginia Woolf was almost right: all one really needs is a c... Jonathan Raban: Alice in Expenses Land - Following the great parliamentary expenses scandal from afar has been to view my home country through the wrong end of a telescope: so many scuttling figures, comically diminished in scale, like poor, tiny Douglas Hogg, with his flat cap and backpack, breathlessly hurrying down the street pursued by a giant fuzzy insect in the form of a microphone. 'That is not correct. That is not correct,' he told the insect, like a pedantic character in Alice ... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 13... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 13... No Secrets, No Quick Fixes - The quick and easy trend seems to be getting worse - not only do we want things fast, we want everything boiled down to One Rule. And as if we ... What's Your Artistic Brand? - A toy sale catalogue arrived in our mailbox today, an I was struck by how everything is branded. You can't just buy a truck - you buy a Transformer. Hannah ... Draw a Cute Tree Frog - I visited the Sydney Aquarium last week, and enjoyed seeing some really interesting creatures. I was surprised to learn how intelligent Cuttlefish and other cephalopods are. I'm not so keen ... Life Class - Drawing the Human Body - 'Life Drawing' is the term that British and Australian English-speakers use when referring to drawing the human body - 'Figure Drawing' for most Americans. Life Class is of course the ... Sketching Hands - Stuck for a subject? Draw hands! They have lots of tricky bits to work on, you can change them into interesting poses - even grip objects - and best of ... Drawing for Painting - Drawing for painting isn't about making an outline to mechanically color in. For most artists, drawing is fundamental to their art practice, and doubly so for painters. Even if they ... Draw a Cute Cartoon Character - Cute kids and animals are an important part of any cartoonist's repertoire. Learn the archetypal characteristics of a classic cute cartoon character, as you follow this easy step-by-step tutorial by ... Put Your Finger on the Pulse (of Comic Publishing) - If you are hoping for a career in comic art, you need to know about market trends. Stuff that was 'huge' a year or two ago is going to be ... Design a Cartoon Tough Guy - Guest author, cartoonist Shawn Encarnacion, explains how to use classic cartoon archetypes to create your own cartoon tough guy. Whether you need a tough marine sergeant, a musclebound thug or ... Fear of Failure - Do you ever think about drawing something then decide you can't? Or maybe you don't actually decide you can't, but you find yourself procrastinating over it - event though it's ... Copyright © 2009, Opt-in Email 4 You. All Rights Reserved. |