Following on from the discussion about the disappearing role of women in British sf here (which has spawned this further…
Thought 3
I was both amused and bemused to note that Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, is rather predictably being touted as…
Thought 2
I’ve been taking part in an interesting, intense and at times disturbing discussion of the position of women in British…
Thought 1
Howard Jacobson has an interesting polemic about comedy in serious fiction in the Guardian. I was particularly struck by this…
Take off your face, we’d like to see the mask
I don’t write much about music, but I have been immersing myself once again in the music of Pete Atkin…
Language and science
A quick post before I shut down for a few days much needed break. Throughout the 19th century science was…
The big story
I am currently reading A Terrible Beauty by Peter Watson. Not a great book by any means, it is superficial…
I am always alike
Without intending it, I seem to have produced a companion piece to my comments on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. It…
Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode, one of the finest of literary critics (I would love, just once, to produce a piece of criticism…
He
I have, finally and rather reluctantly, finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It is a book that has absorbed me…