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READINGAPRIL 2014

21774. (J. J. Mar­ric) Gideon’s Badge
21775. (Juan Cole) [in blog Informed Com­ment] Oba­macare Enrolls 7.1 Mil­lion: But Will the
. . . . . Haters Ever Stop Hat­ing? [arti­cle]
(Gard­ner Dozois ‑ed.) The Year’s Best Sci­ence Fic­tion, Six­teenth Annu­al Collection:
. . . . 21776. (Gard­ner Dozois) Sum­ma­tion 1998 [pref­ace]
. . . . 21777. (Greg Egan) Ocean­ic [sto­ry]
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READINGMARCH 2014

21660. (Wil­fed The­siger) Among the Moun­tains — Trav­els Through Asia
21661. (Philip Mat­tera) Sub­si­diz­ing the Cor­po­rate One Per­cent: Sub­sidy Track­er 2.0 Reveals 
. . . . . Big-Busi­ness Dom­i­nance of State and Local Devel­op­ment Incen­tives [report]
(Kather­ine Mans­field) In a Ger­man Pension:
. . . . 21662. (John Mid­dle­ton Mur­ry) Intro­duc­to­ry Note [pref­ace]
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READINGFEBRUARY 2014

21595. (Kate Wil­helm) Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
21596. (Paul Fontaine) Rab­bits To Be “Removed” From Ice­land [arti­cle]
21597. (Misha Fried­man) Offi­cial Homo­pho­bia in Rus­sia [arti­cle]
21598. (M. W. Ray, et al) Obser­va­tion of Dirac Monopoles in a Syn­thet­ic Mag­net­ic Field
. . . . . [arti­cle]
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READINGJANUARY 2014

21513. (Poul Ander­son) A Mid­sum­mer Tempest
21514. (David Lord­kipanidze, et al) A Com­plete Skull from Dman­isi, Geor­gia, and the 
. . . . . Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­o­gy of Ear­ly Homo [arti­cle]
21515. (Ha-Joon Chang) Kick­ing Away the Lad­der: Devel­op­ment Strat­e­gy in Historical 
. . . . . Perspective
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The Romance of Antar

14-01-25 - READING Antar

A medieval rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Antarah Ibn Shaddād

Ear­ly Ara­bic lit­er­a­ture is not well-known in the Eng­lish-speak­ing world, and some ele­ments of it might sur­prise some­one who is only famil­iar with the stuff from lat­er peri­ods. Among the ear­li­est works in Clas­si­cal Ara­bic are a num­ber of tales that can only be called “chival­ric romances”, which strong­ly resem­ble the sort of thing you would expect in Mal­o­ry or Chré­tien de Troyes. What would most sur­prise a mod­ern read­er is the treat­ment of female char­ac­ters. Read more »