In a fictional context, life is often rendered in big, bold, exclamation-rich, declarative moments, ripe with portentous meaning and unable to be shrugged off with a cursory nod and a move on to the next task of hand. But the reality is that the emotionally-intense moments of our lives Continue Reading
Book review: The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
A curious thing has happened in the realm of apocalyptic fiction of late – the arrival of hope. Previously hope was nowhere to be seen, an unimaginable luxury in a darkly dystopian world where civilisation had collapsed, humanity had surrendered to its basest instincts and Darwinism was having an Continue Reading