Museum Review: Vikings, The Untold Story.
The Vikings were, as everybody knows, deranged rampaging barbarians. They would sweep down on to unsuspecting monasteries, brandishing their battleaxes, …
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Down in the Dumps with James Boswell.
“…The Hypochondriack is himself at this moment in a state of very dismal depression, so that he cannot be supposed …
Memento Vitae.
My friend Noah is a filmmaker and he occasionally consults me whenever he is short of ideas for a film. …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (32).
Had nature, in that deep hour, become a worshipper in the house, which man had builded? Or was that heavenly …
The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby, by W.F. Harvey (3/20).
“THE HOME-COMING OF PHILIP” (1/2). [The two recent editions of William Fryer Harvey’s short stories from Tartarus Press and Wordsworth …
Christian Theology and the Easter Bunny.
The first missionaries to set foot in Anglo-Saxon England attempted to render Christmas and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection satisfactory …
A Critical Assessment of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Perhaps literary connoisseurs such as we should remain wary of Mario Puzo‘s The Godfather. It is admittedly an expertly plotted …
Book Review: Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
[The following contains spoilers.] Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) is often presumed to be a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane …
Postscript in an Uncertain Hand.
Tomasz Korcz had ducked out of the party to retrieve an envelope of vitamins from his home. The house seemed …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Darkness.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tension is a troublesome spirit for any play to raise, as it can wreak havoc if …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Chasing Dragons.
Tychy is initially inclined to take a back seat in this review, in a quite literal sense, for I have …
The Enchanted Forest.
Over a hundred miles of forest waited for us, every leaf and twig ready to be picked up and inspected. …
Tourist Review (6): John Knox House.
“A tense, musty, unignorable silence/ Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/ My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.” It …
The MANSIZE Companion to Robin Jenkins’ The Cone-Gatherers.
[MANSIZE is Tychy’s new student support resource, which provides an alternative to the English Literature study aids on the BBC’s …
An Idle Comparison of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] When reflecting upon the making of her Booker Prize nominated bestseller Room (2010) for the …
