The pleasure travel books provide to those who want to recall a place they’ve been to, or who can’t afford to go to Tuscany but love to read about it, is vicarious and pure. If we are natives of the place, such descriptions give a less reliable pleasure. The foreign writers exclaim in delight or […]
Just a few days after the US presidential election, John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic was broadcast live on big screens in hundreds of venues across the world, as part of the New York Metropolitan’s high-definition season. When Adams walked out on stage to join the cast, he received a standing ovation. At the end of […]
Music has a remarkable power over us. In their heydays, Franz Liszt and the Beatles could induce perfectly sane women to pee all over the floor simply by performing in front of them – we call these bladder malfunctions ‘Lisztomania’ and ‘Beatlemania’. Throughout history people have trembled, swooned, vomited, peed, seen visions and committed suicide […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
Will Wiles - Puss Gets the Boot
Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/eyes-of-the-storm