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The Tintinnabulation at the End of the World
A Christmas Story
Dec 24 • Adam Roberts
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ (dir. James Cameron 2025)
Ire and Fash
Dec 23 • Adam Roberts
The Skull in Waterhouse’s ‘Crystal Ball’ (1902)
Momento mori, momento less-y
Dec 19 • Adam Roberts
On Chastity
From Buchanan to Blake and back
Dec 15 • Adam Roberts
Ruskin’s Serpentine Dreams
John Russsssskin
Dec 9 • Adam Roberts
Some Saturns
Ring, ring, why don't you give me a world.
Dec 6 • Adam Roberts
The Prosodic Perfection of Randy Newman's ‘Louisiana 1927’
Ictus, length and music
Dec 2 • Adam Roberts

November 2025

Krasznahorkai, Krasznahorkai, Tiny Little Thing/ Krasznahorkai Dance, Krasznahorkai Sing
Nobels and Whistles
Nov 29 • Adam Roberts
Some Tschichold Penguins
‘Tschichold!’ ‘Gesundheit!’
Nov 26 • Adam Roberts
John Clare, ‘The Mores’ (1825)
Enclosed and Unenclosed
Nov 23 • Adam Roberts
‘Avatar?’ ‘No Thanks, I'm Trying To Give Them Up’
The Pandoran Joe Pasquale Problematic
Nov 20 • Adam Roberts
Ridley Scott's Napoleon
Bonaparte's Netherparts.
Nov 17 • Adam Roberts
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