You Shall Know Them by Their Pitchforks

‘Our memories from before do not add up. Some of us remember a wasteland, others recall green countryside and thriving towns. Ahktar remembers [...]

My standard for verisimilitude

‘My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I [...]

Morning Song

I love the precision of the pauses in ‘Morning Song’, particularly the semicolon (the only one Plath uses in the poem) after ‘notes’. [...]

The Kromlau Gambit

‘Severed of flesh and earth, the dog’s soul remembered. It remembered wolf and jackal. Becoming rage and anger, it remembered death carried in [...]

Corwick Grows

‘But then I see how the limits of the city have changed. The furthest estates are shrouded in darkness where street lights should [...]

The Color of Distance

‘Ani’s ears lifted, this time in surprise. Deep work was dangerous. She remembered the first time she had attempted it. She had become [...]

Gravity of the Flux

‘Miami Vice is above all a great film on the human condition in a time of flux. Everything progresses at top speed (the [...]

Dystopia for Realists

‘Calls for accountability and transparency might sound technocratic and unambitious. But the right to an explanation of how an automated decision-making tool arrived [...]

Real Tigers

‘Cigarette smouldering in hand he shambled into the lane, a coronet of smoke lingering in the air behind him, like an image of [...]

Follow the Ecstasy

‘When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they accept the system and identify [...]

James Sallis

‘My model’s more the European – someone like [Raymond] Queneau, who wrote novels, poems, essays and popular songs, was a phenomenal editor… He [...]