Entertaining contrivance

What little I’ve read of Neal Stephenson’s work has made me want to read more of it, but I don’t … More

Thematic weaving

I don’t know that it’s an intentional parallel, but the protagonist of Emma Hunsinger’s She Would Feel The Same experiences … More

A warm voice in a cold world

When I wrote down my thoughts in response to La Belle Sauvage, which is the first volume of Philip Pullman’s … More

Radically obnoxious

I’ve never before re-read Nemesis the Warlock, unlike most of the other legendary 2000AD strips, so revisiting it in this … More

Sweet reasonableness

Having had occasion to excavate some of my East Anglian roots in response to watching The Dig recently, I was … More

Doing it every day

Watching the second film in our self-selected route through Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, I had in my mind the … More

A fairly tail

Well, that’s two ShortBox comics in a row with a cultivated visual naïveté. However, where Núria Martínez’s Outspace is very … More

Excavating justice

I don’t come from Suffolk, but I’ve lived here the vast majority of my adult life, and I have family … More

Rigorously nourishing

This album was a gift from a friend, who I imagine had it recommended to him for its prog connections, … More

Getting off the train

One of the books that has made the greatest impact on me is Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. … More

Expert hand-holding

Worldbuilder, storyteller—these are Philip Pullman’s great strengths for me. As a ‘novel-maker’ he’s stuck in a rather old-fashioned, comfortable mode … More

Writing history

History is what we write about our past—it’s the origin story a culture constructs for itself, from a variety of … More

Blandgorgeousartsampler

It’s common for a bunch of artists to collaborate on a series, but Madi (as far as I know) has … More

Shiny dance machine

It was the 1980s. We all had glossy hair, wore shoulder pads, and made music with the same three models … More