Dan Moren’s new novel ‘All Souls Lost’ is a departure from his previously published work, but not as much as you might think. Antony talks to him about the book, how it came to be, and why it was a long time in the making.November...
theJesuitFather Gabriel, walks up to a waterfall and starts playing his oboe, aiming to befriend the natives with his music so he can carry hismissionarywork in theNew World. TheGuaranítribesmen, who have been stalking him from a distance, approach Gabriel for the first time, puzzled by the...
“About half of all sun-like stars are binaries,many of them too close to distinguish, but we find something like 25% of all sun-like stars have a binary companion at separations of more than 30 AU, about the distance to Pluto,” he said. “The distribution peaks at a separation of ...
The size and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, including even dwarf planets, but not planets. Of the roughly one million known asteroids[1] the great number of them are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, approximately 2 to 4 AU from the Sun, in the main asteroid belt. ...
A solution was discovered with the development of luni-solar cycles based on careful observation of the three brightest objects in the heavens – the sun, moon and planet Venus. It is not suggested that Homer was the first to recognise these cycles but he was so familiar with certain of th...
Their worlds change, however, when the two of them encounter one another — as closely as they can, at any rate — and, despite the distance, sparks fly. It’s a heartbreaking story of what it means to be alive, and what we’ll risk in order to live our lives to the fullest, ev...
154. "The Silent Sun" From:From Genesis to Revelation(1969) Hoping to pique the interest of their first producer Jonathan King, Gabriel and Banks whipped together this generic baroque-pop ballad, a flop of a single which Banks later described inChapter & Verseas "a pastiche of aBee Geessong...
South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (1992) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1965) The Statement by Brian Moore (1995) The Song of Roland by Unknown (1040) Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1870...
from Aldo Tagliapietra's expressive words. (English speakers can just use their imagination on the concept narrative, focusing on a pair of planets.) The musicianship is elite: On "Sospesi nell'incredibile," drummer Michi Dei Rossi swings and pounds in equal measure; and Tony Pagliuca's ...
(547 AU). One Astonomical Unit (AU) is the distance from Earth to the Sun, about 93 million miles (149.5 million km). Even by using our fastest deep space probe, Voyager 1, moving at 11 miles/s (17 km/s) it will take over 150 years to reach just the edge of the SGLF ...