Marooned Off Vesta

One of the more peculiar changes Bradbury made when he expanded his novella "The Fireman" into Fahrenheit 451 was to have Montag ...

On February 22, 2022 I wrote in a notebook: Moretti, "Homo Palpitans" ( Signs , p119): "The city dweller's life...

I have two large paintings on my wall that my brother did maybe twenty years ago now. The first is mainly white wash with a tinge of blue at...

Donald Francis Tovey: But the caution which seems so obvious to us was not noticed by his contemporary critics. We may leave out of acco...

1. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle 2. Seamus O'Mahony, Can Medicine Be Cured? The Corruption of a Profession 3. Nicholas Till, Mo...

Having established some grounding in Marxism - i.e., for the first time, in reality - I began over the past few years what I've been thi...

In March of this year about to end I took Swann's Way down from the shelf, just to remind myself of how it feels, how it starts, or rat...