Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Monday, 15 April 2019

Ian McEwan is patronisingly ill-read (and maybe should watch a film or two?)

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Ian McEwan has written a new novel - Machines Like Me - that looks at the ethics around artificial intelligence. I haven't read the book...
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Thursday, 31 August 2017

Philip Pullman wants to make more money - at book buyers expense

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Writing books is a competitive business. There are uncountable aspiring novelists scribbling away at their masterwork while scraping a livi...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017

The Booker Prize isn't as important as a lot of folk think

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Tim Worstall reports on a lefty professor's comments about the Booker Prize: The Booker now has a stranglehold on how people think ...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

What do you mean fairies aren't real, Professor Dawkins?

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Fairy Sculptures, Cottingley Richard Dawkins, High Priest of the New Atheists, has (or perhaps hasn't) been having a go a fairy tal...
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Thursday, 12 December 2013

Martians, ignorance and rudeness: on reading the Spectator's 'Books and Arts" section...

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I read the Spectator every week. In the old-fashioned way by sitting or lying holding the words printed on paper and reading them. None o...
Monday, 6 August 2012

Frankenstein, science fiction and missing the point - commenting on Mary Hoyland at The Spectator

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Every now and then magazines that write most often about that tedious world of literary fiction stray into writing about science fiction. ...
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Sorry, Dame Stella, but you're wrong about children reading - and about social media

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Dame Stella Rimmington, former head girl and ex-spy is chairing the judging panel for this year’s Man Booker Prize. I suspect that part of t...
Saturday, 23 April 2011

Post-digimodernism and the Art of Blogging

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There are moments of epiphany or are they lightning strikes on the road to Damascus – my grasp of religious metaphor’s a tad limited. But ...
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Thursday, 30 December 2010

What do we mean by 'good'?

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*** I have spent a moderately pleasurable day updating music, cataloguing CDs and generally playing at being a librarian. I even wore the ...
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Monday, 27 December 2010

Why I hate English Literature!

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Its funny isn ’t it, those things which we get chippy about! And the sheer hypocrisy of such chippiness . However, this blogpost is about m...
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Friday, 22 October 2010

Fantasy politics - a world without the Party

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I have been reading one of those substantial, detailed fantasy epics. You know the sort – sweeping vistas, warring kingdoms, dark lords and ...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010

A little more on Whimsy....

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I am – as my more avid and assiduous readers will know – something of a fan of whimsy. If we’re allowed to use such a base word as ‘fan’ to...
Tuesday, 3 November 2009

On whimsy....

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Whimsy: 1. An odd or fanciful idea; a whim. 2. A quaint or fanciful quality This piece started with me exploring the meaning of whimsy and h...
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