There’s an excellent article on the prevalence of the trauma plot in contemporary literature in the January 3-10 […]
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I’m starting to grieve the idea of going back to normal. Not that I think ‘normal’—meaning the way […]
Yes, I felt an overwhelming wave of melancholy as PM Jacinda Ardern The Magnificent announced, in suitably serious […]
Yes, I’ve heard the question asked repeatedly over recent days and it’s one that I want to have […]
My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]
Some (slightly revised) thinking from old lecture notes on epistemology in the post-9/11 world, as we approach the end of another decade. (1/5)
I was conducting an interview recently with a couple of guys I think the world of. But it […]
Once upon a time I might have written a book about space and these walls and how things […]
For the past few weeks I’ve had this image in my head, of a guy standing on the […]
Burning Belly 