Short Story Review: Teatro Grottesco
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …
Tag Archives: Capitalism
A Political Reading of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Vito Corleone appears to be the founding father of an alternative model of America, in which the power of money, …
The Devil is in the Bagging Area.
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (1/6).
The literary ghost story will never cease to profit from its long-held stake in the popular anxieties pertaining to travelling …
An Open Letter to Ed Miliband.
My dear Ed. I have never met you and unless you are obsessively Googling yourself in the wee small hours, …
Tychy@ the Fringe: (No) Living Room.
The show’s flyer proclaims that “the future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams” – which …
Remarks upon Herman Melville’s The Encantadas.
The Galapagos archipelago was the cradle of evolutionary theory, but Herman Melville locates its islands altogether beyond modernity and meaning. …
Book Review: Forests:The Shadow of Civilization.
At one point in Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (1991), Robert Pogue Harrison contends that when “thinking takes refuge” within …
Noctes Ambrosianae (8). Greed is Good special.
[SCENE: Jenners Department Store Coffee Shop.] James: I’ll have a cappuccino please. Tychy: And I’ll have a black coffee. James …
