How art works

When I hear the word ‘gun’ I reach for my culture

Left and right fight over realism in the arts without knowing what it is

Aug 19 •

Colour-blind casting as historical whitewashing

The problem with non-diegetic diversity

Jul 8 •

I never thought it would have a happy ending

On The Office’s very special Christmas Specials

Dec 29, 2023 •

Professionalism is.

What makes a show perfect, and why The Office was

Sep 22, 2023 •

How to read short stories

With a bit of why and where thrown in

Sep 13, 2023 •

Big screen energy

Wrong and right reasons to go back to the cinema

Sep 6, 2023 •

The meaning of stories about meaningless suffering

Aug 30, 2023 •

On the road of excess

And the ring-road of repetitious art

Aug 23, 2023 •

Saying yes/and to Truth & Dare

Part 2 of the So Mayer interview, make-believe science and a non-binary God

Aug 9, 2023 •

So Mayer: Into the queer quantum universe

On a new, extraordinary short story collection, 'Truth & Dare'

Aug 2, 2023 •

The KPF: an objective formula for telling whether a story is slow

Jul 26, 2023 •

Death is elsewhere

How Milan Kundera rejuvenated and defended the art of the novel

Jul 20, 2023 •

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