Literature

Seven Stereotypes of Realism (part 1)

Try get it right before you call it shite

Feb 9 •

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, 2024 •

Colour-blind casting as historical whitewashing

The problem with non-diegetic diversity

Jul 8, 2024 •

Of the writing on Substack there is no end

And much reading is a wearing of the self

Nov 29, 2023 •

Round up YOUR DEAD

Or is that bring out?

Oct 31, 2023 •

Genocide out of sight, out of mind

Defining ‘The Zone of Interest’

Oct 24, 2023 •

James Clarke and the triage of fiction

‘Sanderson’s Isle’, a new great British novel

Oct 13, 2023 •

The doping scandal in literature

Reading between the lines, being scared of what I see

Oct 6, 2023 •

How to read short stories

With a bit of why and where thrown in

Sep 13, 2023 •

On the road of excess

And the ring-road of repetitious art

Aug 23, 2023 •

Inspirations the Avatar films didn’t take

Aug 16, 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 •

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