Feb 27, 2020 | Essays, Fiction
Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...
Feb 5, 2009 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Cold Turkey Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what...
Sep 19, 2008 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent and pleasurable. And our leisure now is no more than the charnel-house where dead time is born. And now you could read... Red Brocade You, dead, are so much better than...
Apr 8, 2008 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. And now you could read......