The novel The Camellia Resistance by A.R. Williams starts off in a comforting place, a warm bed, as the narrator watches her lover dress. But the world outside is far from a comfort — a future landscape, painted in apocalyptic tones and colors. It's become a familiar world in the past decade or so, thanks to … Continue reading A tightly-controlled world: A.R. Williams on ‘The Camellia Resistance’ (pt. 1)
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Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
As the calendar year nears the end, media book departments have one goal in common: to produce lists of books to give as gifts and for one's own reading pleasure. Piles of books, endless lists, captions, the mad rush to meet deadlines ... ah, I remember it well (too well!). Not to be outdone by … Continue reading Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
Hard truths and honey: A mythic master class with Stephen Greenblatt
When you look at Botticelli's painting Primavera (detail, above), what do you notice? Scantily-clad ladies dancing like they're at Woodstock? Images of the Eternal Feminine? Zephyrus wearing a creepy gray bogeyman costume? Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World and The Swerve, notices something else entirely. For him, the painting contains a kind of … Continue reading Hard truths and honey: A mythic master class with Stephen Greenblatt
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