Brighton Rock and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.”
I was very struck last year when reading Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” (1953) …
Tag Archives: Morality
The Right to Pornography.
Pornography, as most people eventually discover, bears as much resemblance to reality as the dead surface of the moon does …
The Wee Ginger Dug: A Scottish Horror Story for Halloween.
Fergus and Morag MacAskill lived in a large farmhouse some miles down the road from Inverness. They were eager to …
Democracy on Trial: The Future of Democracy.
It is after midnight and the Orkney Islands have just declared for Remain. As we wait for the results of …
Book Review: The Tell-Tale Heart.
The eighth and latest novel from the English author Jill Dawson initially appears to share nothing other than a name …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Fragile.
Is it really the end of the world? When he was eleven, One (Nigel Francis) was sexually abused by a …
Tychy@ the Fringe: My Name is Saoirse.
Eva O’Connor’s latest drama “My Name is Saoirse” is a one-woman show, and this, for Tychy, plunges it into automatic …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Collector.
[The following contains spoilers.] “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Nine days after 9/11, when …
Exclusive Scenes from the New “Star Wars VII” Script.
[Scene: Outside Southwark Crown Court.] BBC News Reporter: And so you join us for another day at the trial of …
More on that “Right to be Forgotten.”
Imagine that you are the director of executive responsibility at a prominent city bank. I’ll give you a moment. Right, …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Solstice.
[The following contains significant spoilers.] This is a wicked little play and it skates with great assurance on some decidedly …
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 …
Book Review: When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy has been given a gift: a new English translation of Begenas Sartov’s 1978 novel When …
Readings of Ringstones: Calmahain.
[Tychy has previously written about “A Christmas Story,” “Capra” and “The Khan.” Ed.] Sarban’s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) …
Referendum News: How “In-Out” Affects “Out-In.”
Yesterday we learned that lucky old Scotland may have not one but two shots when the European Union is put …
