Tuesday Adam Gopnik makes some nice literary allusions in a recent New Yorker essay-review of George Musser’s Spooky at a Distance, which is about the history of quantum entanglement theory. Entanglement, also known as non-locality and described by Einstein as “spooky at a distance,” claims that two particles of a single wave function can influence each other, even […]
By portraying traditional Victorian marriages, Anthony Trollope exposes the pathologies that came with them.
Anthony Trollope has wise things to say about the differences between conservatives and liberals in “Prime Minister.”
Conservative though he is, Anthony Trollope would be appalled at the arrogance of our rightwing media, given the way he goes after “The Jupiter” in “The Warden.”
Anthony Trollope wittily describes an election in “Doctor Thorne.”
Trollope, Shaw, and Lawrence can be seen as wrestling with the merits of self sacrifice.
