Author Archive
May 12, 2025There’s a way that you’re kind of, sort of, supposed to complain about prizes — that they’re a bit silly of course, but they don’t really do any harm,...
March 31, 2025Fairly 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...
March 28, 2025I 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...
March 5, 2025The 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...
February 17, 2025When 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...
