Parkinson’s Law and the Pull of a Deadline
It was like a nightmare. I was entering a $100,000 essay contest, and it was deadline day, with plenty of work still to do.…
Greece as Europe’s Borderland
Greece seems to be synonymous with “crisis” these days. The debt crisis, the migrant crisis, or just the “Greek crisis”, as if…
January Reading Roundup
Better late than never! Here’s my reading roundup for January. It was a month in which I did a lot of travelling,…
Road Stories Show a Different Side of America
Reading Hounded: Stories From the American Road by British journalist Alan Emmins gives a vital insight into the little-seen sights of everyday…
The Power of Words: The Great Passage by Shion Miura
The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a novel about a group of editors compiling a dictionary. If you’re looking for a…
Stories of Racism and Retail Hell: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Race and capitalism in America should be fertile ground for literary fiction. This year’s Black Friday shopping frenzy brought the usual bout of stabbings…
December Reading Roundup
December has been a good reading month for me. It’s been a good month in general, in fact, and I wanted to…
New Poetry Project Explores Mental Health With Tarot Cards
A Q&A with poet Sascha Aurora Akhtar and illustrator John Alexander Arnold about Only Dying Sparkles, a new project combining poetry, illustration…
WordPress Gutenberg: First Impressions
These are my first impressions of how WordPress Gutenberg works for creating a new post.