Michel Houellebecq: Prophet or Troll?
Houellebecq depicts a Europe where French culture is a bad joke.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 14 min read
Fiction
A collection of 23 posts
Young Adult Fiction's Online Commissars
No Young Adult fiction writer is in danger of being shot, starved, or sent to work in the mines for political transgressions.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The Forgotten Story of How "Punching Up" Harmed the Science-Fiction/Fantasy World
Drama in the sci-fi/fantasy fandom may not be of great consequence for larger society (though the politicization of culture is a real and spreading problem).
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
"Canada Has Gone Mad": Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou
Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.”
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome?
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
Helen Dale
· 8 min read
Read Houellebecq To Free Your Mind
Houellebecq has grave doubts about the net effect of the sexual revolution on human well-being.
Matthew Stahlman
· 15 min read
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
Robert Darby
· 31 min read