Epic yet parochial: the director/writer discusses his first science fiction novel

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“Where are we to begin?”, Virginia Woolf asks in her essay “How to Read a Book”. “How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasures from what we read?

Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect

There was a night as a boy when I couldn’t sleep ahead of a football match, too wired by thoughts of the sporting heroics I might achieve—or fall short of—the next day. While tossing and turning in my

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the