Morphosis

I'm reading, for the first time, H G Wells's semi-autobiographical novel Love and Mr Lewisham (1900). It's very good! It con...

A minor philosophical niggle, this. ‘The Conjunction Problem’ is what Daniel Kahneman, in his Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) , calls a p...

Art by Scott Kim . Nic Wilkinson (whose Twitter feed brought this piece to my attention) comments: ‘This is unimaginably pleasing to me....

[ Granny Weatherwax by Karen Shannon , reproduced by kind permission ] I didn't know Pratchett personally, although I did meet...

This can hardly help but come across as a little, well, incestuous: linking from one of my blogs to another of my blogs. But here we are...

Jean Giraud/Moebius .

Charlie and the Colonial Factory . In the first edition of Dahl's perennially popular fantasy (published in 1964 in the US, and a ye...