Book NotesI just finished William Trevor’s latest novel (his first since the disappointing Story of Lucy Gault) and am happy to report he’s back in the driver’s seat at age 82 or so. From Thomas Mallon’s New York Times review: There is a good deal of kindness in Trevor’s Rathmoye, and in the Rathmoyes he… Continue reading
Speaking of Siris, he does in one paragraph what many a teacher can’t explain in an entire semester. Evolution is not a means of creation; it isn’t very clear that the notion of a ‘means of creation’ is coherent. Evolution is a theory of generation; to be more precise, it is an account of how… Continue reading
Siris is all over Jerry Coyne, who, I guess, just can’t help himself.
Mike Flynn, on the subject of aliens, and whether there is any possibility they might look like…us: Now, which is more likely: That two extremely remote chances came up independently for the same species [rare-squared]; or That the one might have something to do with the other?
A new short story of mine, Dinner at Rosie’s, is out in the latest issue of The Christendom Review. Check it out if you get a chance. Lots of good poetry, fiction and essays.