Paradise Redux: The Essential Paradise Lost edited by John CareyYes, Paradise Lost is still read today. It is the progenitor of the fantasy and science-fiction tradition through the epic tale it tells of the founding Judeo-Christian myth. Tolkien and Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, George RR Martin and the rest are the...29 Nov. 2017
Beyond the skin: The Frontier Within Essays by Abe Kōbō‘In his work,’ Dworkin writes of Abe, ‘sexual intercourse is a metaphor for the human condition.’ In The Frontier Within, we catch a glimpse of the condition as Abe sees it, without the metaphor. Just as in the sex lives of Abe’s protagonists the14 Apr. 2015
Whatnots and wall jobs: A World of Other People by Steven CarrollThere is more driving this project than mere biographical voyeurism. In the same way that The Lost Life dramatises and elaborates 'Burnt Norton’, the first poem in Eliot’s Four Quartets (1943), A World of Other People dramatises the last, ‘Little26 July. 2013