1. K’s mother was a strange woman. She once told the young K she had arranged for her to take a job at a local chemist. She would start on Monday. When K arrived, the chemist knew nothing of it. As K stood, crippled with uncertainty, he said, “All right then, I’ll put you on.” […]
Read more +For my final days in Finland, Jyväskylä has put on an arctic show for me. The place is spectacular in the winter. You’ll even see my bike – the Black Panther – resting in the cold, ready for hibernation.
Read more +The art for my upcoming story on Tor.com is out. How fantastic is it?
Read more +Andrew Macrae can be found skulking around inner city Fitzroy, Melbourne’s home of good coffee and designer boutiques. Andrew is a quiet, unpretentious man with his hand in several art forms at once. A while ago, he was designing typewriter art. He currently pays in the instrumental band, Television Sky. For some time he’s been […]
Read more +New Left Review recently published selections of Victor Serge’s diary. Serge was, of course, the only one to come out of the Russian Revolution looking spotless, partly because he wasn’t in the highest positions of power, one suspects, though he was certainly courageous enough and ended up in Lubyanka prison waiting to be shot by […]
Read more +In October, the Old City seems deserted. Entire streets empty, only stray tourists – who must overwhelm the city in summer – drifting around, wandering into the restaurants at night. If it’s like any city, perhaps it’s Prague. Tallinn mostly avoided the destruction that ruined Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk, because during the Second World War, the […]
Read more +I went walking on a brisk, autumn day. The temperature was about 10 degrees, the light translucent, the greens turning to gold. One of the old houses, grand and pretty, on the south side of the city. Near the river, but close to lake lies an old shed, moss embedded in its roof. The lake, […]
Read more +Mark Barnes released his first novel, Garden of Stones earlier this year. The novel is a dense and baroque fantasy that reads like no other. The reader finds themselves thrown into a world, people and events swirling around them. Barnes himself is a personality. You know he’s in the room, not only because of his […]
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