The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880, translated by by David McDuff in Penguin Classics series, 1993/2003, 1013 pages. These are my personal reflections on re-reading the novel. There are no spoilers and no attempt at a plot summary. A symphony Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is a Mahler Symphony of a novel: it is… Continue reading Re-reading Karamazov
Month: January 2024
A Year in the Dark
Review of Phillip’s Stargazing 2024 & Night Sky Almanac 2024 There are several publications that offer a guide to the night sky for the year ahead, and here are two of them. Of course if you are interested in astronomy, you may already have reference books, star charts and on-line aids to navigating the night… Continue reading A Year in the Dark
Teaching the garden to weed itself
What do you get if you cross an unconventional economist with a talented journalist? If the economist if Steven D Levitt and the writer is Stephen J Dubner, then the result is a series of best-selling books and a hugely popular podcast. Along the way it will entertain and astonish a lot of people, make… Continue reading Teaching the garden to weed itself