April is the coolest month!

Breeding lilacs out of the dead land is IN. As is catching up on posts

I have a couple of big pieces coming out this month; in the meantime here are some— not necessarily smaller ones. But each in its own way your perfect Sunday read. If you like wizards and Ovid that is.

This month’s newsletters

Jessa Crispin and the Art of Tarot - my interview with Jessa, author, original Bookslut and erstwhile cartomancer

The apocalypse of Alan Moore - the Northampton Beard’s many-splendored comic and why you should read it asap

Then somebody bends - the beasts and beauty

Some earlier, if I call them critical aperçus, do you promise not to slap my glasses?

The Desert Called Peace - my review of post-war Iraqi science fiction by Hassan Blasim

The Eater of Worlds, and of Children - It and how horror should horrify

A short story chaser

The Streets Beneath the Beach - I guess I failed to put on my tinfoil cap before White Lotus

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