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An Asimovian Triptych
The triptych is an artform with a long history. The word derives from the Greek—not a triple tych, whatever that might be, but tri, three, ptychs (πτυχή, “a fold”): a painting to be folded in on itself. A typical triptych is painted on boar...
Solvej Balle, ‘On The Calculation of Volume’ (2020-22) (transl. Barbara J. Haveland [books 1-2], Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell [bks 3-4] 2024-26)
[Spoilers in this post for vols 1-4]
On The Calculation of Volume is an ongoing seven-volume novel sequence—so far Balle has published six of the seven in her native Danish, and four of those have been translated into English (volume 5 is...
Tennyson's ‘Ulysses’ (1833/1842)
[Newell Convers Wyeth, Odysseus’ Ship (1929)]
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This, one of Tennyson’s most famous poems, is often discussed by critics in terms of whether it articulates a heroic striving against the depredations of old-age and decline—rage, rage again...
Sappho in Middle English
[Miniature of Sappho and her companions, from a Dutch translation of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames, Bruges, 1475]
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A few years back an abortive project of mine (one of many) was prompted by reading Constantine A. Tryp...
‘Backrooms’ (dir. Kane Parsons, 2026)
And it was alll ... yellow
Coming a little late to this much-praised movie, and I enjoyed it very much: as all the reviews have said, it’s genuinely unnerving and creepy, a couple of slightly-broad brush character-parts (the sad-faced ther...
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