@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus   …you has a bad brain.

Mark Rylance, huh?  I saw Richard III on Sunday, and… it was genuinely hilarious too.

This may just be my optimism, but I think Wolf Hall is popular just because it's a really good novel. A modern novel, too; it's about the fact that villainy doesn't feel like villainy from the inside, as much as it's about what happened in the 1530s. I've been exposed to dodgy Tudor drama all my life, but it didn't…

Ooh, thanks, I just looked up The Watchers after your mention, and will be looking out for it.

@avclub-9715d04413f296eaf3c30c47cec3daa6:disqus I particularly liked the way your joke was gently ironic and also knowledgeable about UK culture… and so went right over his miserable head.  Almost poetic.

Zooey

Really glad people are listening to That Mitchell and Webb Sound

Agreed, The Entire History of You was  a really good sci-fi gag being used to real emotional and dramatic effect

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus Actually, that was an exaggeration; "…an author not finding a way past that problem for a long time, after which things weren't quite the same" would be truer. Having stronger and stronger feelings about sexual politics she came to regret things like the use of "he" in Th…

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus Actually, that was an exaggeration; "…an author not finding a way past that problem for a long time, after which things weren't quite the same" would be truer. Having stronger and stronger feelings about sexual politics she came to regret things like the use of "he" in Th…

Ursula LeGuin is a famous case of an author not really finding a way past that problem

Ursula LeGuin is a famous case of an author not really finding a way past that problem

…that's good enough for any sensible decent person.

…that's good enough for any sensible decent person.

The great thing about Mantel's Cromwell books is that we're experiencing everything as Cromwell sees it; we're in Cromwell-world. The man's thoughts and the narrative slide in and out of each other, but even when he realises some things about himself (as he does increasingly in…

The great thing about Mantel's Cromwell books is that we're experiencing everything as Cromwell sees it; we're in Cromwell-world. The man's thoughts and the narrative slide in and out of each other, but even when he realises some things about himself (as he does increasingly in…

…and all these reviews have prompted the best comment threads, with the funniest & most passionate gang of commenters (disagreements and all). It's been a delight to read.

…and all these reviews have prompted the best comment threads, with the funniest & most passionate gang of commenters (disagreements and all). It's been a delight to read.

"…did he bring up the spider?"

"…did he bring up the spider?"