My review of Christian Salmon’s Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind is now online at 3:AM Magazine here.
Archive for the ‘America’ Category
06
Oct
Things have been, and continue to be, quite hectic as I work on the final stages of my PhD.
In the meantime, post Lisbon Treaty, have a look at how the Irish are being portrayed in a cartoon by Jeff Danziger, with commentary from Laura, here.
07
Aug
I review Adam Braver’s novel about the day of JFK’s assassination, November 22, 1963, on 3:AM here.
03
Jul
My review of Michael Sorkin’s very good book on New York urbanism, ‘Twenty Minutes in Manhattan’, is on the 3:AM Magazine website here.
12
Jan
Blogging has never been a daily habit for me, but the gaps between posts on this site are now kind of ridiculous. Um. That is all. I guess I’ve just fallen out of the habit, is all. Doubtless, more will be forthcoming once I find my blogging voice again. In the meantime, I recommend this New Yorker profile of a long-distance trucker who has (apparently accurately) deduced the inner components of the atomic bombs dropped over Japan at the end of the Second World War. Interesting for its portrayal of obsession, and for its interesting details about the bomb – I didn’t really know about the ‘gun mechanism’, for example.
18
Nov
My article on the Beatles visit to Dublin in November 1963 is in the Irish Times today, here.
08
Sep
Jonathan Raban’s recent Granta article about the American Northwest and the wilderness is available on his site here. It traces the impact white America has had on the essentially wild character of the landscape, including the development of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Richland Nuclear Facility and the vineyards of Eastern Washington State.
