History booksReviewThis sweeping survey of the post-war period contains fascinating insights but lacks an organising principle
It takes chutzpah to write a synoptic history of the world in the second half of the 20th century, a period within living memory of the reading public. But it is a history Jonathan Sperber handles with brio, summoning evidence from personal anecdotes and high theory, vignettes and statistics. In its range of themes and reconstructions, The Age of Interconnection invites favourable comparison with that other survey of the 20th century, Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes. Read More...
Country diaryInsectsSandy, Bedfordshire: The small china-marks never so much as touch terra firma
A restless white moth, the size of a shirt button, is summer’s phoenix from the water. Half a dozen Cataclysta lemnata may be on the wing at any one time, bubbling up from out of the pond.
Though they skirt the rim, fast-flapping light shapes repeatedly courting the ground with tiny swoops, they never land, never so much as touch terra firma. Read More...
After ABC debuted its three-hour block of Shonda Rhimes programming on Thursday, including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away with Murder, we asked four black women to explain the significance of this TV event Published: 26 Sep 2014 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRon5qmnpa1brPIqKmgoaM%3D