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Arts RSS FeedsWhat's in a Number? ˇ Donald MacKenzie: The $300 Trillion Question - Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers' Association's London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world. Libor anchors contracts amounting to some $300 trillion, the equivalent of $45,000 for every human being on the planet. It's a critical part of the infrastructure of financial markets but, like plumbing, doesn't usually get noticed. Only a handful of economists, and no other academics, have ever looked in any detail at Libor, and even the financial press didn't show much interest in how Libor is calculated until this spring, when there was sharp controversy over whether these crucial numbers could be trusted. (This article was updated on 23 October.)...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Don't Just Do Something, Talk ˇ Slavoj Zizek on the financial crisis - One of the most striking things about the reaction to the current financial meltdown is that, as one of the participants put it: 'No one really knows what to do.' The reason is that expectations are part of the game: how the market reacts to a particular intervention depends not only on how much bankers and traders trust the interventions, but even more on how much they think others will trust them.... Help-Self ˇ Jenny Diski on Alastair Campbell's Dodgy Novel - Campbell's novel is about a psychiatrist who is having a breakdown while helping his patients come to terms with their problems . . . Oh, let me evade for a moment more. Campbell's first book was The Blair Years. That was not a novel, but an account of being spin-doctor supreme in the government of Tony Blair. As Blair's director of communications and strategy and then adviser, Campbell was involved, among much else, in presenting the massaged facts that took us to war, and dealing with the press after the death of David Kelly. He was a gleeful fixer, bully and phrase-maker for a prime minister who had streamlined the Labour Party (as in discarded anything that smacked of socialism) until it was indistinguishable from the Tories, and oversaw a government obsessed with wealth, targets and the corporate organisation of public services. Nothing in his public life inclines me to like him.... I Could Sleep with All of Them ˇ Colm Tóibín on the Mann Family - Thomas and Katia Mann had six children. It was clear from early on that Katia most loved the second child, Klaus, who was born in 1906, and that Thomas loved Erika, the eldest, born in 1905, and also Elisabeth, born in 1918. The other three - the barely tolerated ones - were Golo, born in 1909, Monika, born in 1910, and Michael, born in 1919. Erika remembered a time during the shortages of the First World War when food had to be divided but there was one fig left over. 'What did my father do? He gave this fig just to me alone . . . the other three children stared in horror, and my father said sententiously with emphasis: "One should get the children used to injustice early."'... Leaving Paradise ˇ Adam Shatz: Iraqi Jews - On 27 April 1950 a man whose passport identified him as Richard Armstrong flew from Amsterdam to Baghdad. He came as a representative of Near East Air Transport, an American charter company seeking to win a contract with Iraq's prime minister, Tawfiq al-Suwaida, to fly Iraqi Jews to Cyprus. Only six weeks earlier, the Iraqi government had passed the Denaturalisation Act, which allowed Jews to emigrate provided they renounced their citizenship, and gave them a year to decide whether to do so. Al-Suwaida expected that between seven and ten thousand Jews would leave out of a community of about 125,000, but a mysterious bombing in Baghdad on the last day of Passover, near a café frequented by Jews, caused panic, and the numbers registering soon outstripped his estimate. The position of the Jews in Iraq had been deteriorating with alarming speed ever since the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war in 1948: they were seen as a stalking horse for the Zionists in Palestine, and were increasingly re... Diary ˇ Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Another Booker Flop - It is very hard to define or measure class in India, where data on personal income and assets are extremely hard to come by. It is even harder to know for certain what has happened in the past two decades since economic liberalisation was proclaimed. But there are clearly very rich people in the cities now with fancy imported cars, expensive watches and clothes, and showy lifestyles, and they live side by side with slum-dwellers and those who sleep on pavements. There are urban and suburban developments that boast such names as Malibu Towers, Beverly Hills Residence and Bel-Air Estate. This is growth all right, but of a sort that can induce vertigo. It is what Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger is ostensibly about.... Cityphobia ˇ John Lanchester: The Crash - Byron wrote that 'I think it great affectation not to quote oneself.' On that basis, I'd like to quote what I wrote in a piece about the City of London, in the aftermath of the Northern Rock fiasco: 'If our laws are not extended to control the new kinds of super-powerful, super-complex and potentially super-risky investment vehicles, they will one day cause a financial disaster of global-systemic proportions.' The prediction was right, but the tense was wrong. The disaster had already happened, it just hadn't yet played itself out in the markets.... What can Cameron do? ˇ Ross McKibbin: The Tories and the Financial Crisis - In 1931, as the European banking system seemed to be collapsing, the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter observed that people felt the ground giving way beneath them, and not merely those with bank accounts. Many in Britain and America must be experiencing similar tremors now. Yet, in Britain at least, there are huge differences between 1931 and today.... You'll Love the Way It Makes You Feel ˇ Mark Greif on 'Mad Men' - Mad Men is an unpleasant little entry in the genre of Now We Know Better. We watch and know better about male chauvinism, homophobia, anti-semitism, workplace harassment, housewives' depression, nutrition and smoking. We wait for the show's advertising men or their secretaries and wives to make another gaffe for us to snigger over. 'Have we ever hired any Jews?' - 'Not on my watch.'... Diary ˇ David Runciman: The Problem with English Football - When I was younger I used to support a football team that no longer exists, called Wimbledon FC. They played at Plough Lane, a small, ramshackle ground in an ugly bit of South London (some way off from the Wimbledon where the tennis happens), and they played a rough, rumbustious style of football that didn't endear them to outsiders but warmed the hearts of their fans, especially when it enabled them to turn over fancier, more fastidious teams, who often seemed to perform at Plough Lane as though they had clothes-pegs on their noses.... Hysterical Vigour ˇ Frank Kermode - Roth's young men often come from New Jersey and are the sons of middle-class Jewish fathers: insurance salesmen, say, or jewellers. In this instance the father is a kosher butcher. Marcus helps in the shop, and unless seeking a career in that profession one could hardly want to know more about it than we get from Marcus's description of the day's work. So the story begins and ends in blood.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 21... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 21... Grids / Copying / Tracing - When I last featured an article on Grid Drawing step-by-step, some of our forum members shared some brilliant ideas for making it a bit easier. Try some of these ... Life Drawing: Drawing the Human Figure - Attending a life class is an essential part of traditional art training. Often life drawing groups are run by community centers and art groups, so that even if you can't ... Paper Review: Generic Sketchbooks - Who hasn't used a generic sketchbook? You know, those ones from the bottom shelf at the art store, just a few dollars. Some have a cardboard back and a ... Are You an Art Mom? - Benjamin Krevolin at The Huffington Post has come up with an alternative to Joe the Plumber: Amy the Art Mom. It's an interesting article, though it has less to do ... Draw a Manga Head in Three-Quarter View - Guest artist Preston Stone continues his series of easy-to-follow beginner Manga articles with a lesson on drawing the head in three-quarter view. You can really tie yourself up in knots ... Draw Animals Step-By-Step - Bored kids? Try these easy step-by-step animal drawings to keep them occupied. This style of step-by-step doesn't allow much room for creativity, but kids can add their own style with ... Introduction to Pencil Shading - When we start pencil shading, we tend to forget about the subject and start just filling in the area, like a coloring-in. To get your shading working properly in your ... Artists and Money - Amanda Clayman - About.com guide to Fiction Writing, Ginny Wiehardt, recently interviewed Amanda Clayman, a financial psychotherapist, on the subject of Artists and Money. While I initially found the idea of a 'financial ... Elements of Landscape: Drawing the Sky - How do you draw the sky? That great endless arc of blue? Sometimes, you might want to leave it white, but there are times when that creates more problems than ... Featured Site: Ed Hall, Cartoonist - Whenever I tell would-be cartoonists that they need to practice their figure drawing, they usually give me a slightly crosseyed look - I can almost see them mentally tossing it ... Copyright © 2012, Hidbid.com - The Free eBay Auction Sniper. All Rights Reserved. |