In a little article titled “A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls,” G.K. Chesterton censures the modern intelligentsia because they “rate the gutter-boys for their immorality at the very same time that […]
Imagine a rather thin, middle-aged Caucasian man, his face wearied with life. Imagine the man’s head is crowned with a dark mop of hair — shaved on the side, but […]
Chapter One of Griff Harrows: Told You No Lie ‘A fugitive, this captain, buffeted’ Virgil, The Aeneid The old man didn’t know. Griff rolled away from the screen […]
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonhard Cohen, Anthem (Selected Poems, […]
If there is one clear point of dystopian stories, it is that the dystopia must be resisted. A well-crafted dystopian story presents that resistance as tenuous and difficult. One of […]
Ironically, dystopian fiction can be an escape into the very thing that readers seek to escape from. The stress of oppressed characters relates to the real world, and tales of […]
“The Truth Will Set You Free” is a free-verse poem that explores the dystopian elements underlying contemporary Western society. We live in a strange time that seems to be defined […]
About a half century ago the Japanese man, Shusaku Endo, wrote the novel, 沈黙 (Chinmoku). It was soon translated into English under the title, Silence, captivating a large number of […]
“The first demand any work of art makes on us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.” C.S. Lewis[1] I was recently reminded of C.S. Lewis’s […]
