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The Iran House
Commenting on my 2022 memoir, And the Rest Is History, Dennis Prager said he wondered, “How many Kenneth Timmermans are there?” I seemed to have led multiple lives, as a war correspondent, investigative reporter, human rights advocate, and pro-freedom activist. I had been nominated for Congress, taken hostage by terrorists, and shared a journalism prize with Tucker Carlson. I had even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! And while all of that is true, there is another, far more secretive side to my activities in the past thirty years. It invariably began with a knock at the door, the showing of creds…and an earnest request. Was I willing to help my government in its war against in...
Ockham’s Razor
ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA PRAETER NECESSITATEM. – Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity, the methodological principle underlying scientific thought known as OCKHAM'S RAZOR which is also the title of this collection of four stories in the form of direct speech, consistent with the requirements of logical possibility. It is presented as a programme of ongoing assignments given to a group of philosophy students (of varying ages) by their Professor, to be conducted as a collective endeavour. The stories, or dramatic tableaux, woven together by a common thread, interlace the realms of art and philosophy inextricably, forging an intricate bond. Ockham’s Razor, poised at the int...
Last Operas and Plays
"When I see a thing it is not a play for me, but when I write something that somebody else can see then it is a play for me." —Gertrude Stein In the more than seventy-five plats Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her—including the natural world—and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound andwordplay. For Strin, the writing process itself was always impo...
The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley
The first work to attempt a complete collection of his letters, some highlighted by sketches on the backs. There are several photographs of his family and friends, and reproductions of several of his most famous drawings.
Annual Register
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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From France to the Frontier -- Chapter 2: Settling "Paincourt" : Indians, the Fur Trade, and Farms -- Chapter 3: "A Strange Mixture" : Rulers, Misrule, and Unruly Inhabitants in the 1760s -- Chapter 4: Power Dynamics and the Indian Presence in St. Louis -- Chapter 5: Sex, Race, and Empire: The Peopling of St. Louis -- Chapter 6: "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" : Conflicts over Religion, Alcohol, and Authority -- Chapter 7: A Village in Crisis: Conflict and Violence on the Brink of War -- Chapter 8: "l'Année du Coup" : The "Last Day of St. Louis" and the Revolutionary War -- Chapter 9: The Struggles of the 1780s -- Chapter 10: St. Louis in the 1790s: The Enemies Within and Without -- Conclusion: "The Devil Take All" or "A Happy Change"? : The End of European Rule and the American Takeover -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
