Review of Aldebo 1 (Issue 39), SF Site, 2010
Original here. Some interesting thoughts from Martin McGrath on Eskragh here Aldebo 1 Issue 39 A review by Seamus Sweeney Advertisement Produced in the North Dublin…
Review of “The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Myth of Emily Morgan” – Douglas Brode/Joe Orsak, SF Site, 2010
Original here “This is the West, Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This famous quote from John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is…
Review of “Blockbuster”, Tom Shone, SAU Blog, February 2005
Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now – indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Laboured Modernisation
From The Social Affairs Unit blog on January 5th 2005. Since this was written, and even more “modernised” version, the BBC’s “Sherlock”, has been made and widely celebrated. While I initially…
Nthposition review of “The Book of Skin”, Steven Connor, 2003
This book is a good example of contemporary (well, 14 year old at this stage) academic writing in the humanities – jargon and theory rich, concerned with unpicking privilege and inequality…
A-Bomb Dream #2 – 2004 review of “100 Suns” by Michael Light in Nthposition.com
Nuclear angst was a staple for those who were old enough to be aware of the oft-trumpeted apocalyptic threat in the 1980s. In the 1990s it became a lot less…
A-Bomb Dream #1 – review of Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker – 2005, Nthposition
My more recent Management Secrets of the Manhattan Project post in The Dabbler was inspired by reading Leslie Groves’ “Now It Can Be Told”, but it was this book that inspired me…
Nthposition review of The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes, 2004
One of the most memorable books I reviewed for nthposition. I have written before that time has modified some of my judgments, usually tempering enthusiasms a little. The years since have…
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