Issue 4: Immortality, F. Scott Fitzgerald, short stories
If immortality came in a pill – would you swallow it?
Issue 3: Your Fault, hybrid forms, robot actors
Do we really want robot Morgan Freeman to read us Harry Potter?
Issue 2: imagined cities and dragon smut
This week has a fantasy focus – and a very big release announcement.
Issue 1
Thoughts on Knausgaard, Didion, the Gatsby centennial – and a book bound in human skin.
The Great Gatsby turns 100: How old is our mass-cultural crisis?
What does our obsession with Gatsby mean? How does the novel’s endless popularisation alter the way that we relate to it – and what does that say about how mass culture obstructs our relationship to concepts in general?
How to read a novel
And yet, how does it work – this supposedly simple skill of reading which millions of children learn anew every single year? We stare at a screen or a page and a collection of dark curves and slashes causes us to see anything that it is possible for an author to have imagined.