On Fiction
Bocland: on Nicola Griffith’s Menewood and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them
Stories like Menewood show us the other worlds that exist and the other worlds that are possible together.
A Stone in the Hat: Joseph Conrad and Neil Munro
It surprises us because we see Conrad, usually seen as a rather sombre figure, indulging in drunken juvenile japery.
The Lure of Antiquities
To think about antiquity is to think about time. It is an inevitable process. Ask yourself: what other way is there to describe how objects wear their histories? How else…
How Dystopian Narratives Can Incite Real-World Radicalism
Dystopian narratives affected subjects in a profound way, recalibrating their moral compasses.
Metamorphosis of a Dream
Sharif Ahmedov is the only translator of the great Jorge Luis Borges into Uzbek.
Kafka’s Bestiary; or, Regarding a Remark of Adorno’s Never Said
“Auschwitz begins when one looks at a slaughterhouse and says, ‘they’re only animals’.” This quote is attributed to Theodor W. Adorno. Except he never said it. Despite this, at least…