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Perhaps this is why we feel so drawn to trees. Groves of redwoods and beeches are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous…
In spring, you can feel life stirring in the barest twigs and the silhouetted catkins look as if a diminutive duck has run across the sky. One day the…
From Dan Hitchens, Orwell and Contraception In all of Evelyn Waugh’s novels up to Brideshead Revisited, Orwell detected a consistent theme: Waugh’s “private ideal” of “a middle-sized country house.” In each…
Sadly, Alt Hist has published its final issue. Or rather, Mark Lord has understandably, given multiple demands, decided to step back from publishing it. Mark published two of my own stories in…
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
I have a review of Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project” on the UK birth cohort studies in the current TLS. The full article is…
A fascinating post by Miles Richardson on a profound cultural shift. Interesting methodology, especially how the authors deal with the possibility that the effect they describe is simply due to…
Original here. Another of my SF Site reviews of Ticonderoga Publications books after this and this. As with “Ghost Seas”, I recall greatly enjoying the book at the time, yet have forgotten most about…
Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner is an interesting writer – I…
Séamus Sweeney 