this side of the pyrenees

"A pleasant justice, that, which a river or a mountain limits.
Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, may be heresy on the other!"
Blaise Pascal.

Defect to this side of the Pyrenees once a week on Book Pitch. (Requires subscription.) 

Who would live anywhere other than on this side of the Pyrenees? Neither you nor I, if we could help it. Certainly not the author of this column. They're all as mad as kettles on that side of the Pyrenees. Plain as day. It's all animistic cannibal rituals this, animistic cannibal rituals that...

TSotP 1:             An interview with Christine Finn, author of "Past Poetic: Archaeology in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney".    

TSotP 2:             "Jane Austen: All tied Up"              
Pride and Prejudice has been cast as proto-feminist, richly satirical, and full of cutting social commentary, so why does it leave me cold?

TSotP 3:             Interview with writer and editor Forrest Aguirre. 

TSotP 4:            "Keeping Up with the Guptas"         
The latest “Culture Score” from NOP World will reinforce French preconceptions about the ignorance and chicanery that surrounds them.

TSotP 5:             Interview with Robert Majzels, author of "Apikoros Sleuth". 

TSotP 6:             Interview with Karen Ní Mheallaigh, a specialist in the speculative fiction of classical Greek author Lucian.

TSotP 7:             An Aristocratic Column Featuring Royals, Seals, and High Winds

TSotP 8:             Interview with Charles Forsdick about Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture

TSotP 9:             Interview with Jay Kinney, author of several books on Western esoteric traditions

TSotP 10:           The Middle-Aged Man and "The Sea": Banville a worthy winner of 2005 Man Booker Prize

TSotP 11:           Waiting for NATO at The International Critical Court

TSotP 12:           Interview with poet and musician John Amen

TSotP 13:           Family Treason The ODNB