Dune 50 Years on (2015)
It’s 50 years since the publication of Frank Herbert’s Dune. To celebrate the anniversary of one of the great SF novels, I wrote an »
Understanding is the least we owe the dead (2015)
After the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, I wrote about my reaction for The Guardian. »
The Beautiful Reward is Freedom: Ursula Le Guin (2014)
Last night (November 19th) Ursula Le Guin accepted the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 'I think hard times are coming', she »
On Being Faithless (2014)
Of all the jargon words that get thrown around in British political discourse, "faith" may be the one from which I feel most alienated. »
The novel after Sebald: Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014)
'Formally “10:04” belongs to an emerging genre, the novel after Sebald, its 19th-century furniture of plot and character dissolved into a series of passages, held »