Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
Tag Archives: Morality
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.
[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …
Captain Disillusion versus “Dear David.”
Before Christmas, I had a conversation with a French man who I had gotten to know reasonably well over 2017. …
Deconstructing Two Recent Urban Legends: #2 The Elevator Ritual.
You must have heard the one about Elisa Lam. A staple of online paranormal mysteries and conspiracy theories, she is …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
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) …
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, …
