Monthly Archives: July 2011

Biased Against Byatt? Not Really

Famed Polished director Krzysztof Kieslowski once claimed that the job of a filmmaker is to transport his or her audience to a world: it doesn’t matter if that world is emotional or intellectual. The same can probably be said of … Continue reading

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A.S. Byatt, Possession, the novel

This is from the most popular Amazon review of the book: “It’s pretty hard not to be impressed with this thing, with its amazing scholarship and spectacular writing. […] [S]o much so that you almost feel you have to genuflect … Continue reading

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Limitless, the Movie

Limitless. Most of us have heard the premise or seen the movie. A drug allows a writer—pretty clever to begin with but no genius—to access every shadowy neuro-corner, every forgotten niche of his mind, to put every brain synapse under … Continue reading

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