The new Star Trek movie is good, much better than I had anticipated. After the abominable Star Wars prequels, I was sceptical about the recent trend for “rebooting”. But, as with James Bond and Batman, this new movie maintains the spirit of the original series while adding some fresh touches. The casting of the young [...]
Tanya Gold, in her Guardian article What’s with this Jane Austen fixation? raises an interesting issue, and one that I have pondered recently after seeing the Austen novels top the lists of “popular classics” again and again. What resonance with today’s readers is implied by the enduring, in fact resurgent, popularity of Jane Austen’s fiction? [...]
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