“Pankaj Mishra’s eloquence is not in doubt. But what is it about the zeitgeist that explains his rise to secular sainthood in the Anglo-American literary establishment? What is it that makes him the West’s Orientalist-in-chief?”
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Bigger Than Big? Say Hi To The Yottabyte
“Put it in terms of DVDs, a yottabyte would require 250 trillion of them. But we’ll eventually have to think bigger, and thanks to a presentation from Shantanu Gupta, director of Connected Intelligent Solutions at Intel, we now know the next-generation prefixes for going beyond the yottabyte: a brontobyte and a gegobyte.”
Will Ferguson Wins Canada’s $50K Giller Prize
“Though best known for his humour and travel writing, the Calgary writer won for his dark novel 419 … a provocative tale of an email scam and a woman who sets out on a wide-ranging search for those she believes responsible for her father’s death.”