Shortly after ‘prehistory’ emerged in the nineteenth century as an archaeological term and concept, novels and short stories depicting the prehistoric past began to be published. Critics have tended to evaluate prehistoric fiction on the bases of fidelity to the work of archaeologists, and mimetic efficacy in com…[Read more]

Review of Peter Sloterdijk’s ‘Globes’ for the Sydney Review of Books.

The trajectories of the commercial imperative and of cultural production are at best orthogonal. Publishers who care about literature as an end in itself are tacking into the wind, attempting to nurture aesthetic value using methods designed to generate monetary value. This informal pact is threatened by economic rationalisation, under pressure…[Read more]

A series of blog posts written for the Southerly blog while travelling from Germany to Romania down the Danube in 2014.

Series introduction to New Trad literary journal, dedicated to new poems that make use of archaic forms.