‘Imaginary Cities’ Is a Book to Enjoy Getting Lost In
In charting the cities of human fancy, Darran Anderson has created the opposite of an atlas.
Michael Noble
Life on Earth Has Suffered Five Known Mass Extinction Events. Has Mankind Triggered the Sixth?
Elizabeth Kolbert's warm, engaging clarity and use of anecdotes amid the data humanises her argument without softening the science of The Sixth Extinction.
‘World War One: The Centenary Collection’ Remembers, But Does Not Memorialize, the War
Rather than recapitulating the faux sentiment of veterans' poppies, BBC's Centenary Collection gives viewers a chance to really understand WWI.
‘Sarah and Duck: Doubles (Vol. 2)’ Is a Whimsical Throwback to the ’70s
Sarah and Duck finds the fantastic in the mundane in this fine reminder of the joys of the British kids' TV of yesteryear.
‘Ripper Street’ Is a Smart, Witty and Humane Drama
Ripper Street's greatest strength is to avoid direct reference to the killings as an investigative project and to treat them as traumatic events from which its characters are trying to recover.
The ‘Mad Dogs’ Are Fast on a Road to Nowhere
The desperate foursome are running from themselves and don't notice the Afrikaans sign, ‘Oppad na nerens'. ‘On the road to nowhere’.