Not Very Well Versed: Inauguration Poets’ Insipid History.
If, as Heidegger once pronounced, our future as thinking people and thus the future of civilisation as such is in the hands of the poets, then we in the United […]
Category: Long Read, by: G. Grimes
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Pas si misérable. A review of ‘Les Misérables’
When all was said and done… I liked it. Musical theatre, and film adaptations of the like are not at all in my wheelhouse. In fact, the only musical I […]
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Tolkien and The Hobbit
http://www.thehobbit.com Unlike many of my friends who have read The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings half a dozen times each, taken or taught university courses on Tolkien’s oeuvre, and […]
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Lacrimas
I have spent a lot of time crying this afternoon. I’m crying right now, in fact. I’m not completely sure why. Tears for me are an anomaly, and I never […]
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‘Life of Pi’: a bit too ‘pie in the sky’
Here I discuss how both the film and the book offer a great opportunity for reflection on important religious questions, but that its false dichotomy of disenchantment/re-enchantment, rational science/irrational religion, […]