Coromandel Reading

Goodbye Canucks, Hello Kiwis.

Ka kite ano.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t The Bolthole be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

The Secret Hidden Tricks

in restaurant menus.

Billy Strings and Don Julin

The Martians Claim Canada

She is always a little weird.

The Treasures Blooming

Canada’s largest seed catalog archive.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Westwood Lake Chronicles be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

From Inboxing to Thought Showers

How business bullshit took over.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t The Final Cartwheel be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Hind Cartwheel be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

The End of the Social Era Can’t Come Soon Enough

Actually it comes on Thursday, when we leave for three months of radio silence.

'I Don't Believe In Science,' Says Flat-Earther

...set to launch himself in own rocket (The feeling may be mutual)

Best Books of The Year Lists

All of them.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Between the Cartwheels be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

Why I’ve Had Enough of George Orwell

Orwell is a terrible role-model for an age that needs more serious people grappling with complexity.

The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence

The surprising forces influencing the complexity of the language we speak and write.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Orion’s Cartwheel be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

Mother Demands Her Son's School Take ‘Sleeping Beauty’ off the Curriculum

...because the princess doesn't give consent to be kissed and woken up by prince. (He should used his flumazenil). 

As Trump Bragged About His Wine It was Sold at Shenandoah National Park.

It’s better to talk shit and drink wine than....

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Samurai Road be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Fire Beyond the Darkness be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Wagon Days be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

Slaughterbots

Coming to a theatre of war near you.

Do Civilisations Collapse?

The idea that Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

... and wouldn’t Stories of the Southern Sea be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

World's First Human Head Transplant a Success, Controversial Scientist Claims

Whack job. Sewing one dead head to another dead corpse is not a ‘transplant’.  It’s not even cricket.

‘Mugabe Must Go’: Thousands in Zimbabwe Rally Against Leader

Pure evil. As Harold found out in Orion’s Cartwheel.

How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants’ Bodies to Control Their Minds

The infamous parasite’s methods are more complex and more sinister than anyone suspected.

What Trophy Hunting Does to the Elephants It Leaves Behind

I’ve written President Trump. You should too.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

...and wouldn’t Stout Men be a wonderful gift for someone you love?

Be Afraid

Be very afraid...

The Odyssey and the Other

What the epic can teach about encounters with strangers abroad and at home.

How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon

The actor’s persona was inextricable from the culture of toxic Cold War machismo.

Tiny Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rodents

Triggering ethical concerns...

The Book’s The Thing

The story of how print works on people.

Lessons in Stillness From One of the Quietest Places on Earth

In the wilderness of Washington State’s Hoh Rain Forest, a poet searches for the rare peace that true silence can offer.

Found

A rare carved stone that could rewrite art history.

Frequent Gunfire

What was it like to be Ernest Hemingway?

Worldwide Foster Wallace

Workers of Wallace, unite.

On Unread Books

Who really reads books?

A Restaurant Ruined My Life

I was a foodie with a boring day job who figured he could run a restaurant. 

Why Trees Don’t Ungrow

The cliché that life transcends the laws of thermodynamics is completely wrong. The truth is almost exactly the opposite.

What It's Like to Learn You're Going to Die

Palliative-care doctors explain the ‘existential slap’ that many people face at the end.

Paleo Politics

What made prehistoric hunter-gatherers give up freedom for civilization?

Bellatrix Releases New Historical Novel Set in New Zealand

in Broadway World.

For All You Kiwis

...who want to buy a copy of The Bolthole as an eBook, it’s now for sale in NZ on the Paper Plus website.

The Dawn Watch

Joseph Conrad in a Global World.

Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture

And if you don’t, why you should…

The Bolthole—Now Available in Kindle Format Also

Right here.

All Will Be Revealed

In my new book project, Dahalo Daydream—The Bandits of Madagascar.

Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own

A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world—itself.

Novel Politics

When fiction gets real.