HATIS Armenia’s women
basketball team
It’s good to have heroes and here are some of mine. This morning I was greeted with the news that the Armenian women basketball team, HATIS, beat their Turkish rivals, BESHIKTASH, 87-64. In an interview, team captain Bojana Vulic talks about the difficulties of getting to Istanbul simply to compete, having […]
Lawrence Raab defines, in his poem, The Invention of Nostalgia, this unique human emotion as “How much it hurts/ to want what’s gone” (40) which is something that touches every soul on this planet and yet no one has come up with a satisfactory method of dealing with. Indeed, according to the poet, prior to […]
“Do I terrify? — /
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.”
– Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus.
Redemption comes in many different forms. It is easy to criticize, especially when it comes to whole swathes of humanity, especially when I myself risk so very little. It is why shows like The IT Crowd or AbFab are brilliant; sure, they […]
Musicians and bands on Myspace are curious creatures considering all one needs to do is create a profile for free, upload your music and suddenly you have brought into existence something that in previous generations would have required the backing of a major record label. It is true, of course, that there were unsigned bands […]
In less than a year I will be 40 years old and this morning I sat in my doctor’s office waiting for my physical (I appear in perfectly good health despite my best efforts) reading a fascinating article by Freeman Dyson, When Science & Poetry Were Friends (The New York Review of Books, August 13, […]