“You’re six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations—and lived to tell the tale.” Here’s some advice from Popular Mechanics, at 120 miles per hour. In British Columbia, Victoria’s Poet Laureate makes the mistake of venting her indignation [...]
In an age in which every publication must bring surefire profit for the publisher, nobody’s translating foreign literature into English. That gave Alane Salierno Mason an idea … “You can trace the rise of Britart to the deregulation of the City and the growth of a class of super-moneyed hedge funders and share-optioned investment bankers [...]
“He stops in the middle and just strums the rhythm…” Daniel Arizona remembers Buddy Holly. Christopher Guerin lists 46 authors who can be relied upon to produce a novel regularly every couple of years. There’s only one problem: “the list is pretty much the same as it was ten years ago.” And they’re all getting [...]
Hey, it’s not every day that you get to use the word “persiflage” successfully. Give Robert Hughes a rubber cigar. Mary Beard, classics scholar extraordinaire, gets invited to the Emmy’s. No kidding! Avid readers want to know: who did she wear? “It is only about relationship and not about any identifiable relata:” Tim Parks on [...]
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