Like many avid readers, when I find an author I very much enjoy I tend to read through his or her entire body of work. Most recently this has led me deep into the novels of the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson.
Unnatural(ist) Interests
A collection of essays, reviews, and musings on subjects other than natural history.
La Trahison des Clercs circa 2013
As the trial of Bradley Manning finally begins, I am becoming increasingly of the opinion that the entire affair is disturbingly reminiscent of another famous case of a soldier who stood accused of passing secrets to his nation’s enemy; I mean of course Alfred Dreyfus.
Myth of the Secular Bibliography
For those who were intellectually captivated by the recently broadcast seven part CBC Ideas series “The Myth of the Secular” and found yourself too engrossed in listening to jot down all the fascinating books being discussed, I’ve prepared what I hope will be a helpful list of those very works.
The Serious Point Lost in the Mantel Kerfuffle
By now you’ve no doubt become aware of the teapot-filling tempest that was inspired by a few very well-spoken lines of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant lecture delivered as the first of the London Review of Books Winter Lecture series at the British Museum. However what is being obscured by all the dust kicked into the air […]