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“Victor, you’re the monster!” Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reviewed

Posted on 09/11/2025 by alasdairflett

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel that always brings me back. For me, it is the very best of what literature can be. I first read it for a university class. In the end, I don’t … Continue reading →

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Eva an sich or The Living Treatise: Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’ revisited

Posted on 25/01/2025 by alasdairflett

January led me to Poor Things four years ago. Public health was very much the order of the day back then as Covid restrictions, about which and around which novels are now written (see Caledonia Road by Andrew O’Hagan) still … Continue reading →

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The province and the metropole: Guy de Maupassant and ‘The Outrun’ reviewed

Posted on 06/10/2024 by alasdairflett

I was a couple of paragraphs into Guy de Maupassant’s short story Corsica when I had a sudden and vivid sense of déjà vu. Where had I read this before? Was it in an educational context? Perhaps at school? But … Continue reading →

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On a Central European vibe

Posted on 10/03/2024 by alasdairflett

I am nearing the end of a beginner’s course in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I decided to try it after watching many Breathe and Flow yoga videos on YouTube where the guy (Florian) frequently mentions how his yoga practice feeds into the … Continue reading →

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