Realism, contrary to appearances, isn’t a form closed off to horror. The stories in ’Pemi Aguda’s debut collection, Ghostroots, a finalist for the 2024 US National Book award, rivetingly bore out this... Read more »
Sufferin’ satellites! The quintessential British space hero Dan Dare is back, 76 years after he first appeared in iconic comic magazine the Eagle. With all eyes on Nasa’s Artemis II moon mission,... Read more »
There is a long tradition of stories about artists that are also about the question of how to represent life in art; novels about artists with toxic female friendships are more unusual.... Read more »
I had been overambitious, as young journalists are. But I had also underestimated India, as the British tend to do. Sitting on the corner of the bed in my filthy hotel in... Read more »
I dive from a floating island, a hunk of granite suspended in the sky, drenched in golden sunlight, green and gold leaves to match. As I dive, the first thing I see... Read more »
Earlier this year, Waterstones Dad enjoyed a brief but burning moment in the sun. The description, coined by Gavin Jacobson in the New Statesman, referred to a very specific type of man... Read more »