Book Review: The Magician.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is a lot of bad blood to W. Somerset Maugham’s The Magician (1908). If this …
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“Censored by EUSA” Commentary Roundup.
EUSA Crisis. Last month the Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) sought an interim interdict from the Court of Session to …
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, …
Book Review: Susan Hill’s Dolly.
[The following contains spoilers.] If Susan Hill remains nostalgic for the traditional English ghost story, she usually sets the coordinates …
The Edinburgh Institute of Street Compliments.
[Tychy is pleased to unveil the Edinburgh Institute of Street Compliments. This new programme will complete the important work of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Presidential Suite.
[The following contains spoilers.] It is not good enough for those behind “Presidential Suite – A Modern Fairy Tale,” which …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The List.
The Summerhall looks unimposing from outside: an elongated squat building with a gloomy municipal façade. “Summer” is not the first …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Sun is Not for Us.
The Leeds University production “The Sun is Not for Us” departs Edinburgh today, after spending the week at the Spaces …
Book Review: Gone Girl.
[The following contains spoilers.] How should we go about reviewing Gillian Flynn’s latest “literary thriller” Gone Girl? Greta is one …
Robert Greens and Indeterminate Justice.
At about twenty past six, the complainer was seen standing at the side of the road by a passing motorist. …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (18).
[SCENE: The Cuckoo’s Nest] James: Ah, Zbigniew. Glad you could make it. [He passes Biggy a bottle of Tyskie]. Tychy: …
A Feminist Reading of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
The first word of Mario Puzo‘s novel The Godfather (1969) is “Amerigo,” the name of the Italian explorer which was …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Nourish.
When hunger-striking WSPU activists described forced feeding as an “outrage,” they were specifically likening this ordeal to rape. Forced feeding …
Book Review: Mapp and Lucia.
Aficionados of English Literature will esteem E.F. Benson for writing a handful of cracking ghost stories. They may be dimly …
Jiggery Pokery.
“You’ve heard the phrase the customer is always right… Well, guess what, they’re not.” John Turchiano, spokesman for the New …
