Someone from the antipodes is struck by the incredible lushness of the green, the sense that everything is alive. So far from deep reds and crackling dryness of the ‘sunburnt’ southern land. There seems also to be something missing, but one can’t quite fathom what it is. The sense, then, is of being decentred, of […]
Read more +The New Old World by Perry Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is composed of articles Anderson had written over a decade or so, mostly for the LRB. This gives the book an uneven structure, as the pieces were written at different times for slightly different purposes. What’s more – as surveys […]
Read more +The next big thing is a series of tag team blog posts by writers about their next novel, whether about to be published or ‘in development’. SF editor and author extraordinaire Kieht Stevenson graciously tagged me, so here’s my contribution to the great Next Big Thing chain letter. My tag will be along shortly. 1) […]
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