Tuesday, March 16 2010
Solar by Ian McEwan
Michael Beard is a glaringly repellent creation, a somewhat-deserving winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and a definitively deserving winner of some sort of uber-Nobel Prize in whoring, lying, stealing, face-stuffing, and sneaking around.
Thursday, January 28 2010
Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Phil Ochs: Amchitka
Poignant, and relevant, Amchitka reminds us of a romanticized era when idealism was still able to give way to revolution.
Wednesday, July 25 2007
Arctic Tale
Trying too hard to reinvent the penguin subgenre, Arctic Tale focuses its anthropomorphizing energies on girls instead of boys, on natural enemies instead of platoons of birds who all look alike.
Tuesday, July 24 2007
With Speed and Violence by Fred Pearce
In alarming times, being an alarmist makes you right ...
Monday, May 21 2007
Ecology Without Nature by Timothy Morton
If we must forsake the Romantic idea of nature, we must similarly abandon its understanding of art as something to be held on high.
