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Friday, May 25, 2018
Remembering-or Not Remembering-George Bernard Shaw
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People still like to quote George Bernard Shaw, but as is usually the case with those who throw around words attributed to Famous People in ...
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Farewell, IROSF
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A decade ago I was a fairly regular contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction . I enjoyed the site both as a science fiction fan...
Looking Back: "The Golden Age of SF Television"
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Back when I wrote "The Golden Age of Science Fiction Television: Looking Back at SFTV During the Long 1990s" for the Internet Revi...
Retiring Bond?
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The place of the Bond novels in the history of spy fiction is their being the vehicle for the transmission of the old-style clubland adventu...
Los Angeles in the Action Film
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Looking back at the action films of the '80s, and even the '90s, one is struck by how much they used Los Angeles as a setting. Cl...
Sociology and British Sitcoms: Remembering
Are You Being Served?
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I first watched that PBS staple, the BBC sitcom, Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's Are You Being Served? (1972-1985) what feels like a lif...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Steven Poole Reviews the New Bond Novel
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The Guardian 's Steven Poole has just reviewed Anthony Horowitz's Forever and a Day --the next Bond novel, which is notable for two ...
Monday, May 21, 2018
John le Carrè and the Bestseller List
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Recently going through the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists with an eye to the performance of spy fiction over r...
Review:
Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the '50s
, by Peter Biskind
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Today it seems that Peter Biskind is better known as journalist than academic, on the strength of his history of the "New Hollywood&quo...
Review:
The Sociological Imagination
: 40th Anniversary Edition, by C. Wright Mills
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 256. Given how long ago I became acquainted with Mills' classics, The Power Elite and Wh...
Review:
Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume
, 8th edition, by Alfred Marshall
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I recently noticed on Amazon that the negative reviews of Alfred Marshall's classic Principles of Economics tended to focus on the writ...
Friday, November 24, 2017
David Walsh on the Oscar Contenders
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Earlier this month I mentioned David Walsh's review of Django Unchained , and his remarks on Zero Dark Thirty . Interestingly, just two ...
Monday, September 18, 2017
Reassessing Kurzweil's 2009 Predictions
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Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines remains a touchstone of futurologists and their critics not only because of ...
Review:
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
, by Adam Tooze
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New York, Penguin, 2006, pp. 799. I remember that reading Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers back in college I pored o...
Reading Revisionism
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It seems to me that I have been running across a great deal of revisionist World War II-era economic history as of late, focused primarily o...
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