Art Kavanagh

@www.artkavanagh.ie

I write about books and literature: Andrew Marvell, Salman Rushdie, Tana French, that sort of thing. My newsletter, Talk about books, goes out every 2 weeks https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/tabarchive

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“It’s a catastrophe. Relax!”: Ian McEwan, Solar

Ian McEwan’s novel, Solar (2010), is a savagely comic satire that touches on questions of renewable energy and the climate catastrophe. This has been seen as a departure for him, though his grotesque …

2d ago·9 min read·1642 words

An order things can’t happen in: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play, Arcadia, covers a lot of ground: garden design and history, science, sex and literature, maths and physics, determinism. I suggest its main theme is entropy.

May 30·14 min read·2764 words