Many artists have an unmistakeable style. Van Gogh’s brushstrokes are unlike anyone else’s; they may be imitated but never repeated. Hemingway’s prose is clipped and edited to a degree dissimilar to another author’s. No one used cinematic montage like Sergei Eisenstein did. Similarly, a Guy Ritchie production bears hallmarks of its own. Characters are […]
Regency and Georgian romantic dramas remain very popular; is it because we long for the constraints of civility?
The early days of the web were magical; how did a tool for infinite connection turn into one fostering endless division?
“One Day” is refreshingly different: it is a portrait of a romance but it is painted in generally dark colours. There is regret, memory, tears, bitterness, and yet it is beautiful.
Ridley Scott turned the story of Napoleon Bonaparte into a big budget epic; how does it compare to 1970’s “Waterloo”?
All things eventually decline; is the phenomenon of far right populism a symptom of this?
After my Swedish grandmother died in 1996, my family and I sorted through some of her belongings. We found a few German-language books among her personal effects. Hidden in their dusty pages was a hastily printed Deutsche Mark; I was struck by how crude and jagged the text was. It was my grandmother’s souvenir from […]
I'm a Doctor of both Creative Writing and Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, a novelist, a technologist, and still an amateur in much else.
