This month I have made a conscious effort to finish a number of half-read books and finally investigate some that have been on my […]
Italy A full two weeks of the April were spent in Italy – most of the trip was spent in Perugia, a town located in […]
'We Blew It.' Douglas Rushkoff's Take on the Future of the Web :( coindesk.com/douglas…
Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…
An interesting article Darcy. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…
Brilliant post Darcy. It is so true that students need a lib…
Thanks Richard. I checked out your blog and particularly enj…
A fantastic post, for sure. I have also read every word Orwe…
My positive disposition towards George Orwell On Screen (Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television) – before ever getting to read it – was due to David Ryan‘s generous assistance. The author provided […]
“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […]
*Originally published in George Orwell Studies There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell. Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially for his works published in the 1930s. […]
“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and Archimedes to Locke, Hume, Mill, […]
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My #reading: July 2016
Historians indeed hope that their books might entwine intimately with the lives of their readers and that their histories may sit on bedside tables ready […]