What is the “New Weird“ – and what makes weird fiction so relevant to our times?
The surrealist fancies of the “New Weird” find elegant expression in The Erstwhile by Brian Catling and The Last Days…
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What do Trump’s books tell us about his mind?
The President has published 17 books. Big win! Giles Smith ploughed through 5,000 pages of anecdotes, grievances, business “wisdom” and “truthful hyperbole”…
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Lincoln in the Bardo is a stunning portrait of a violently divided America
Abraham Lincoln carries an urgent message in this remarkable novel of ghosts and war.
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Fictions of fascism: what twentieth century dystopia can (and can’t) teach us about Trump
Dystopian novels of the 1930s and 1940s feel topical once again – but how much do they tell us about…
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“calm rhythm” – a poem by Myroslav Laiuk
“a soldier of an unknown army / fell here / to the bottom of the fog”
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United states of prejudice: Claudia Rankine’s powerful interrogations of racism
Citizen and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invite us to reframe, reconstitute and rephrase the experience of being a black person…
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Terry Eagleton’s Materialism treats its arguments like carelessly piled bricks
Making a case by rendering the contrary one manifestly absurd is Eagleton’s compulsive mode of argument.
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Trailing my escort, we looked for the lost writer of Puget Sound
I sensed a woman who wasn’t wild about her assignment. Perhaps she’d once been traumatised by a comma.
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