The Synthetic Texture of Modern Culture (Or, Who Are We Supposed To Be, Anyway?)
Channel 4 has seen the production of myriad reality television programmes under its aegis, ranging from the British incarnation of Big Brother, which requires no elaboration, to Come Dine with Me, in which contestants hold dinner parties for strangers who judge and score their efforts and compete with each other for a cash prize. This...
Everything* You Didn’t Know about Homer
*Well, almost everything. Well, no, not really. Okay, let me start again. Some Things You Didn’t Know about Homer Homer is often considered the beginning of Western literature as we know it, the big bang of story-telling, with his epic, heroic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey radiating out through the subsequent literary works like...
Surrender on Two Fronts
When everyone has left,
each makes the world exotic with his absence.
History and Fiction: where one ends and the other begins
A writer of anything, whether you call it fact or fiction, focuses upon one or several things, to the exclusion of all else. For this reason history is always, to a certain extent, alterable...
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