Happy Birthday, JRR Tolkien
BBC 2’s “In Their Own Words: British Novelists,” with J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Well is Dry
How many times do you read a book? For myself, I read the vast majority of books only once — it’s a simple case of too many options, too little time. When I was a kid, I often re-read books over and over again. My options were limited, […]
Tracing Traditions
A Soviet cosmonaut gets thrown through a strange portal in space; she ends up on a planet filled with jaguar men, stranded Earthers, sentient metal trees, lost temples and cities, buried treasures, immortal androids, extreme peril and dashing escapes. Does all this sound vaguely familiar? It should, because […]
The Cultural Gutter 