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.

Still Some Chanterelles on Mount Benson