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Remembering the Titanic Without Leaving Dry Land
Last week it seemed as if BBC News broadcasts had become obsessed with the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that they had a reporter on the vessel that was going to duplicate the path...Remembering What I Read
The Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño died in 2003. About all I know of him came from articles written about him in The New York Review. I was therefore surprised to see that, this past Thursday, he had a post on NYRBlog. ...Damien Hirst Tests What the Market Will Bear
There seemed to be a lot of fuss on this morning’s Newshour on BBC World Service Radio over whether or not Damien Hirst should be taken seriously as an artist. My guess is that Hirst would be the first one to appreciate the irony of the situation:...Who Cares About the Maldives?
Having lived in Singapore between 1991 and 1995, I was well aware of the vulnerability to the Maldives of global warming. Unfortunately, at that time global warming was receiving very little attention; and the Maldives were governed by Maumoon Abdul...What Raspberry Pi May Tell Me
Once upon a time, computers were for programming. We used them at work to facilitate (usually routine) tasks associated with our jobs. We used them in research laboratories to broaden the scope of the sorts of tasks they could facilitate. Then the...Life Imitates Art (or At Least Television)
BBC News is covering the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and this morning they decided to take on a rather daring paper. The title of the paper is “In Defence of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier,”...The Dramatic Category of a Margaret Thatcher Biography
There is a telling sentence near the beginning of Martin Filler’s NYRblog post about Meryl Streep’s performance of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady that is likely to frame the attitude of those of us who still enjoy the study of history. After...Getting Out of the Shadow of History
Recently, while reading Milan Kundera’s extended essay, The Curtain (in Linda Asher’s translation from the French), I came across the following remark: The novelist’s ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what...
