Pachinko, Min Jin LeeSo many novelists who work on Min Jin Lee’s themes would be making a comment — social or political — often a very predictable comment. Their work would be called urgent, relevant, and, God bless them, important. Alas, novelists so often have predictable beliefs. Not Lee. She’s a…
Possible endings for The Winter's TaleThe Winter’s Tale is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. It’s not quite a ‘late bloomer’ play but it’s not so far off. Having been stuck in my sick bed, I gave some thought to what the play might look like if the hinge scene where Antigonus abandons the baby Perdita and she is…
Recent books: philosophy, people watching, Peanuts, self helpMetaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman I have been waiting for someone to write this book for years and bought it on sight. Group biography of four women philosophers (Murdoch, Anscome, Foot, Midgely) at…
