In the early 2000s ‘Golden Age of Long-Form Television’, the first season of True Detective must surely rank as one of the greats. One part of its genius was that it worked effectively on multiple levels. On the surface level, it was a thoroughly disturbing slab of Southern Gothic, in
The Lower Hutt Library recently sent me an email to advise a book I had placed on reserve was now available. So I sped down to the local branch (Stokes Valley) to pick the book up, in the expectation I would be well entertained over the weekend. The book was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A number of correspondents have suggested I write about my great passion, namely books, and in particular fiction. Sadly, fiction in New Zealand is mainly read by women (80%), probably due to the ironically mis-named smart phones, these the greatest dumbing down device ever invented.
Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature University of Oxford The onset of the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century, had a seismic impact on British thinking. Ideas of the nation were being hardened through xenophobia, an unquestioned reverence for institutional authority and a vocabulary of English
Many readers will be aware of Jane Morgan and the Dinner Club. After Cyclone Gabrielle devastated so many thousands of homes and lives in Hawke’s Bay, Jane and some friends decided to cook a free meal once a week for those most in need. The premise of the Dinner
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Skyhorse Publishing, December 3, 2023) is a crucial book for understanding how
Tiger The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that founded Australia 1787-1788 Author: Jonathan King ISBN 0-333-33855-3 I picked up a copy of this book at a local second-hand bookstore. It turns out it was signed by the author on the bicentenary of the fleet’s arrival at Port Jackson after
Whenever an anti-white race furore erupts — which is almost daily — I have a simple formula for evaluating whatever its central claim is: flip the script. If, instead of “white”, the subject was any other race, would it be considered racist? Then it’s racist, end of story. If it wouldn’
Jen Webb University of Canberra, Alice Gorman Flinders University Carol Lefevre University of Adelaide, Dennis Altman La Trobe University Hugh Breakey Griffith University, Julian Novitz Swinburne University of Technology Matthew Ricketson Deakin University, Oscar Davis Bond University Peter Mares Monash University, Tom Doig The University of Queensland Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
Leighan M Renaud, Florian Stadtler, Simon Potter University of Bristol Andrew Dix Loughborough University Dominic Broomfield-McHugh University of Sheffield Jane O’Connor Birmingham City University Madeleine S Killacky Bangor University We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s a
Haley Kynefin Haley Kynefin is a writer and independent social theorist with a background in behavioral psychology. She left academia to pursue her own path integrating the analytical, the artistic and the realm of myth. Her work explores the history and sociocultural dynamics of power. brownstone.org Welcome to The
Melanie Williams Professor of Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth
David Nabhan David Nabhan is a science columnist (Newsmax, Times of Israel) and a science fiction writer. Website: www.earthquakepredictors.com Science fiction, in many ways, seeds science. There’s no better example than Lucian’s Verae Historiae, a second-century tale of travel to the Moon eighteen hundred years before
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How I
It’s a commonplace that C. S. Lewis’ Narnia stories “are a Christian allegory”. Which, at a cursory glance, most of us assume even as children. Once the penny drops that Aslan is Jesus, it all seems to fall into place. The idea of Narnia-as-allegory has such wide currency that
