Adam Roberts

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Writer, academic, UK based.
Adam RobertsDec 12, 2022
Here's a post on Pindar's Pythian 5. Tasty, what? https://medium.com/adams-notebook/talking-about-arch-g-g-g%C4%93tes-nation-pindar-s-fifth-pythian-bc01b48a3921
The Punk With The Stutter: Pindar’s Fifth Pythian - Adam’s Notebook - Medium

Still reading Pindar (as per here, here and here). Today I’m interested in one detail from the Fifth Pythian ode. A little fragment of myth. So: Pythian 5 itself follows-on from — or according to…

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Adam RobertsDec 3, 2022
On Annie Ernaux's THE YEARS. http://sibilantfricative.blogspot.com/2022/12/annie-ernaux-years-2008-translated-by.html
Annie Ernaux, ‘The Years’ (2008; translated by Alison L. Strayer 2017)

  Following Ernaux's Nobel win I addressed my (deplorable, no doubt) ignorance of her work by reading this. It's acclaimed, the blurb tells ...

Adam RobertsDec 1, 2022

Snakes on a plane
A bear on cocaine
Who knows what the next movie brings?

I'm pitching today
My brand new screenplay:
"The Goose Who Says Hurtful Things"

Adam RobertsNov 29, 2022
Why is Screwtape called Screwtape? https://medium.com/adams-notebook/why-is-screwtape-called-screwtape-13ba552f5bdb
Why Is Screwtape Called Screwtape? - Adam’s Notebook - Medium

Screwtape is the name of the senior devil who, in Lewis’s famous 1942 book, writes a series of letters to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter, concerning the best way to snatch the soul of a…

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Adam RobertsNov 26, 2022
Thoughts on "Andor": http://sibilantfricative.blogspot.com/2022/11/andor-disney-2022.html
Andor (Disney+ 2022)

  There is rarely consensus in Star Wars fandom, or indeed in SF fandom more broadly, but something approaching that has been arrived at wi...

Adam RobertsNov 25, 2022
Adam RobertsNov 24, 2022
The plural of "apex" is "apices".
Logically the plural of "spex" should be "spices".
Adam RobertsNov 21, 2022
In the UK we talk about Flaubert's "Sentimental Education" and his "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" and so on. That's fine: nothing wrong with translating titles. But why do we say "Madame Bovary"? Shouldn't this be "Mrs Bovary"?
Adam RobertsNov 21, 2022
Very lengthy blogpost on Pindar and horses and stuff. Really, very long. https://medium.com/adams-notebook/pindars-3rd-pythian-horses-horses-horses-horses-horses-f092cbf7115d
Pindar’s 3rd Pythian: Horses, Horses, Horses, Horses

It so happens that I live, for non-equine reasons, in Ascot, Berkshire, a settlement dedicated (as the anthropologists might say) to the worship of the horse. Ours is a single high-street, containing…

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Adam RobertsNov 21, 2022