Killing people.  It's a tricky one, isn't it? We... (and, in this instance, by the word 'we' I mean that rather narrow ba...

Yes, I'm on Pex Lives again.  (I know, it seems like I'm trying to invade the podcast... but you have to remember that, from the po...

You know the brilliant  Pex Lives podcast , right?  Well I was a guest on it back in June, alongside my online buddy, the equally brilliant...

In his famous essay 'The Dialectic of Fear' (published in New Left Review #136, Nov-Dec 1982) Franco Moretti used Marxist and Psych...

More curated tumblr jottings, which some people seemed to like.  Rewritten and expanded. There is, in fandom, an impulse to denounce whic...

I have become convinced that the fundamental appeal of the detective story lies in fantasies of autonomy. Think about it.  What does every...

The Doctor learns that he is bigoted because he refused to accept the idea that a Dalek could be good.  Indeed, he hates Daleks so much that...