Martin In The Margins

It must be a sign of age. These days, despite my Eng Lit and Cult Studies background, I tend to find instances of linguistic innovation ir...

As a small mark of support for brave Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, who was seized and beaten by state security agents on Friday, I've b...

We were in London yesterday to see Anna Friel in Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The play was directed by Sean ...

First, Austin Dacey (via B&W ) on the futility of seeing secular humanism as a replacement for religion: Humanists are right to think ...

I've just been re-reading my posts about last week's trip to Washington, and I was disappointed to find them overly descriptive and ...

On Tuesday we'd planned to visit Arlington National Cemetery, walking across the bridge that symbolically links the Lincoln Memorial wit...

Our second day in Washington - last Monday - was just as bright and inviting as our first. We caught the DC Circulator bus all the way acros...