‘literature is the antidote to numbness’

Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism

Poetry and criticism are forever entwined

Don’t write what you know; write what you love. Writing my first novel, Lady MacBethad, was like the bursting of a pipe. The words gushed out of me, and the story flew onto the page with a kind of fre

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

Review of reviews: Books

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias