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Intricate powerball
If Rick Fury seems to think he resembles the violent action hero on the cover of his album Hard target, well there may be lyrics that point that way on the record, but he’s fucking with you. At this stage in his career he has nothing to prove, creatively at any rate. Clearly he hasn’t… Read more
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The nature of the catastrophe
A strange world in which an ill-defined crisis or catastrophe is unfolding, while people go about their banal business as usual. A strange figure, pulled from the sea, which seems to act as a kind of polymorphous simulacrum. A breakdown in causality, or in the appearance of causality. A fragmentation of experience, and a seeming… Read more
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It all started here
We’re all used to fire and rescue services. Most places in the world are protected by them, and in most places they look quite similar, in terms of the appearance of their equipment, the style of their uniforms, and what we can make out of their operational procedures. What we can’t see by looking at… Read more
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Satire and sprezzatura
James Branch Cabell is largely forgotten today, even among avid readers of fantasy fiction. He and his work belong to another age, but there is much to admire and enjoy in it. He was a Virginian gentleman, who lived a life of ease, and wrote with the kind of sprezzatura essential to gentlemanly conduct in… Read more
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Split women
The Substance opens poetically, with exquisite cinematography. It puts simple, enigmatic images before the viewer with the most delicate precision. Benjamin Kračun shot the film digitally, for the kind of hyper-real perfection its topics require, but used some vintage lenses, and paid very close attention to colour and tonal qualities. These are equally important in… Read more
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Where’s the edge of a person?
Translation state drops the reader into a number of lives we might find familiar, or at least recognisable. A junior member of a wealthy family, bereft of the matriarch who has belittled them for most of their life. An adopted maintenance technician, finding their ethnicity of birth among a community of exiles. A child growing… Read more
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