Mariana Enríquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire is a mutant blend of lit fic and fantasy — […]
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“I have this memory.” Thus begins Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter, opening with the sort of anecdote you […]
Clive James pithily said, “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” What a pat late-nineteenth-century inheritance. […]
I first moved to Italy in the early 1990s and, as is sometimes the way, found myself hanging […]
Colline, translated into English as Hill, was first published in 1929. It is the award-winning first novella written […]
Epping Forest is as unlikely to pique my interest as Sherwood Forest, or any of the other British […]
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Clarke’s Third Law, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, […]
False Fable Once upon no time in Paris, a group of young men and women calling themselves the […]
‘…I paid a visit to Arup, one of the engineering companies closely involved with HS2. In the basement […]
Imagine if death were as obsolete as an old dial-up modem, those noisy protractions from the internet’s Middle […]
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