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Strangers by Taichi Yamada, translated by Wayne P. Lammers Originally published 1987, English translation published 2003 Image Source: Open Library Hideo Harada is a recently divorced, 47 year old screenwriter. He lives in his office/apartment above a noisy, busy Tokyo thoroughfare. He’s estranged from his college-aged son, and he’s just learned that his colleague Mamiya is about to start dating his ex-wife. The whole situation has him feeling lonely, alienated, …

In part two of me being interviewed by Ville over at Mighty Finland (podcast in Finnish only), I made the statement that if the MoD suddenly called and handed me a bag of money to invest in the Finnish Navy, despite the usefulness of submarines I would not buy them, but rather their archenemy – the ASW-helicopter. While we briefly went over the options on the market – and I …

Bite-sized Bot Blasting Developer: Jaleco, Tose (they handled sound according to GDRI) Publisher: Jaleco Release Dates: December 21st, 1990 (Japan), July 1991 (North America), November 10th, 2016 (Retro-Bit Generations) Available On: Game Boy, Plug and Play (via the Retro-Bit Generations) Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up (Horizontal and Vertical), Mecha, Sci-fi Battle Unit Zeoth and I go way back. When I was a wee lad going to Funcoland on the regular to …

If it’s September, then I’m still basking in the afterglow of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars event. If you’re ever looking for something to watch and you want to review my recommendations and new-to-me picks, this will provide one-stop shopping, with every post from the August 2024 celebration! August 1: William Powell August 2: Ida Lupino August 3: John Wayne August 4: Julie Andrews August 5: Gordon MacRae August 6: …

Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Chesterfield Pub Tour: A Historic Journey Through Pubs Today, I find myself returning to Chesterfield to participate in the Chesterfield Great Historic Pub Tour organised by Shaun. Renowned as both “The Heart of …

Image: Simon Pauly/Bachtrack.[Extended cut of a review published on Bachtrack.] Luigi Nono, Como una ola de fuerza y luz; Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz (conductor), Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Berlin, 14th September 2024 In his hundredth anniversary year, Luigi Nono is perhaps more often spoken about than performed. A fixture of the German new music scene for many years, his equal …

A theme park in Istanbul shrinks what is otherwise too gigantic to comprehend, transforming visitors into citizens and sultans of an imaginary Turkish time and narrative. Read on Places Journal

Today’s post is by author Cynthia Swanson. My debut psychological suspense novel, The Bookseller, sold to Harper in 2013 in a pre-empt. I’m not going to lie—it was an amazing deal. The type of deal that compelled me to ask my husband, when I called to break the news, “Are you sitting down?” Amazon • Bookshop By the time The Bookseller released in 2015, Harper had been throwing around the …

It’s been a while since I sat in Zindiya. I seldom visit Moseley anymore. Peacer has changed hands, Carters soon to be replaced with a Japanese “fine dining” concept that I can guarantee will be anything but. I have a Sabai Sabai near my house, and whilst I still occasionally go Chakana, the Dark Horse, or those regrettable afters at Gordon’s, it is impossible to deny that Moseley is a …

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Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing has perhaps the most gorgeous cover I’ve ever seen on a natural history book. That alone would have been enough for me to pick it up and look more closely – but the subtitle, The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, is darn near irresistible. The flap copy […]

We are told that energy transitions are always slow. But this is not supported by history. When a nation decisively commits to building energy infrastructure, it can build fast.We perceive that “energy can’t change quickly” because of recency bias. Most people in The West today have not experienced a major energy transition in their lifetimes. We think it's impossible to build new energy infrastructure quickly, because we haven’t recently.People are …

Ben Krause, Hamed Mousavi, Joni Teräväinen, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “Pointwise convergence of bilinear polynomial averages over the primes“. This paper builds upon a previous result of Krause, Mirek, and myself, in which we demonstrated the pointwise almost everywhere convergence of the ergodic averages as and almost all , whenever is a measure-preserving system (not necessarily of finite measure), and , for some with …