Category Archives: Essays
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
I give this fantastic and surprising comedy full “douze points” “kaksitoista pistettä” ”tolv påäng”! The feel good Netflix movie pokes fun in a loving manner at the bizarre extravagance known as Eurovision Song Contest. The real life annual TV contest … Continue reading
Lost and Found in Translation
First, I should mention that I have not actually read the Purge but the original novel Puhdistus written by Sofi Oksanen. I highly recommend the Finnish version for its sublime language. Yet, I’m certain any translation of it is worth … Continue reading
Sullied solids
The most famous word in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the one we don’t know, the adjective omitted here: O, that this too too flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the everlasting … Continue reading
Schiff’s Backstage Tour of Cleopatra
Despite the unpleasant coating of the cover, akin to toad skin, I could not put down Stacy Schiff’s entertaining biography Cleopatra A Life. To avoid parting with the fascinating metropolis that was Alexandria, and the larger than life single-mother-queen-goddess of … Continue reading
Biography Trapped in Steve Job’s Reality Distortion Field
Walter Isaacson has written once again a biography for the masses, wrapped in a pretty high gloss dust jacket, that could have come straight from the Apple design factory, featuring Steve Jobs on front and back. The book was not … Continue reading
Einstein’s Little Princess
I have just finished Walter Isaacson’s hefty book Einstein: His Life and Universe. It was a real page turner. Isaacson has taken the general relativity, and the man behind it, to tell a compelling story. Surprisingly, not even the calculations … Continue reading
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