The Inimitable Thony C. on the new film Agora, which apparently is still looking for a US distributor: The NANAs* Larry Moran at Sandwalk and Murdo MacMeasly at Pharyngoogoo have got their collective knickers in a twist because they haven’t yet had the chance to see Agora the Spanish film, staring Rachel Weisz, about the… Continue reading Movies
EVOLUTIONHunger that strivest in the restless arms Of the sea-flower, that drivest rooted things To break their moorings, that unfoldest wings In creatures to be rapt above thy harms; Hunger, of whom the hungry-seeming waves Were the first ministers, till, free to range. Thou mad’st the Universe thy park and grange, What is it thine… Continue reading Emily Pfeiffer
Jason Rosenhouse can’t let the slightest criticism of atheists go by without comment. John Pieret thinks he should think a little harder first.
This afternoon’s speaker, Dame Gillian Beer, is the author of a book I very much want to read now, coming as I am (or have been for what seems an eternity) to the closing pages of a novel I’ve been working on myself.
I love this guy. He’s going to be 44 soon, and he just keeps going. Through thick and thin, good times and bad. No matter how many pot holes he runs over. I hope Tim Wakefield is pitching when he’s fifty.
