Fairly regularly, I read political science-type books looking for something to excerpt and, again and again, I have the same reaction: that whatever it is I’m reading is an...
I went cheerfully through college listening to music on old file-sharing programmes while everybody around me had switched to iTunes. While the rest of the student body scrolled the...
The mother of all costume dramas.
Conclave starts with a simple, can’t-miss premise. We will stick ourselves in the Vatican for two hours. What we have to spend on the...
When Sam Kahn asked if I wanted to have a written debate about AI and literature (after my recent piece ‘Literary Culture Can’t Just Dismiss AI’) I immediately...