Where We Live

In the Shadows of the Holocaust

On the Book of Aron and history's dark details.

Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices

Dark Arts territory.

Wild Life

Recurrent neural network for generating stories about images

This is why I don’t do fiction.

The Extreme Minuet ♫

World's fastest orchestra.

Inside the Jihadi Lifestyle Magazine Wars

The terrorist next door.

Midnight at the oasis

Our addiction to fountains, pools and palms threatens our survival.

The Short-Story Vending Machine

Not for the 750 pages of Samurai Road.

Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered

A Postal treasure trove.

Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

http://lithub.com/bohumil-hrabal-of-beer-whores-and-samizdat/
The greatest Czech writer of the past century.

The Aging Face

On viewing my wrinkles through Proust, Rembrandt, and plastic surgery textbooks.

Travelling Deep Below the Surface of the Book

At the intersection of science, art and fiction- like Stories of the Southern Sea.

Books are Dangerous

Contagion, poison and trigger. 

Think Like A Martian

A Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore

A former indie bookseller visits the retailer's brick and mortar store.

The Rhythm of the Tide

When I heard data from an island had proven humans are still evolving, I had to visit.

The Eternal Mystery of the Reclusive Writer

From Mitchell to Pynchon to Ferrant, why we love the hermits.

Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair

Even as longevity increases across the rich world, uneducated white Americans are living sicker and dying earlier. Two economists speculate on the reasons why.

The Talented Mr. Huxley

The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.

The Insane Ways the Human Body Changes During Long-term Spaceflight

A lot.

This Could Have Something to Do With It

College Administrators shred U.S. Constitution After Reporter Calls It “Oppressive” And “Triggering.”

Move Over, America

Canada Is the Land of the Free.

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity?

The answer in my new book, Fire Beyond the Darkness.

The Writer as Merchant

Selling yourself as a storyteller. (so get the books already).

Against Subtlety

It sucks.

Humanism, Doubt, and Optimism

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Trudeau and Obama

 ‘The smiling faces of vindictiveness’

Classic Hitchens

Wade Davis

Why Ayahuasca Is Still Having a Moment.  
(as in my upcoming book, Stout Men)

Have Guns, Will Liberate

Inside the civic theology of arms-bearing.

The Key to Science

The Decay of Twitter

The social network fundamentally changed in early 2014. 

Honours

The Public Sector: Standing in Our Way until We Pay Up

Government needs to be more than crass extortion.

The Intolerable Dream

Don Quixote at four hundred.

The Test of Time

Armenian wine.

How Commercial Airplanes Should be Laid Out

Like this.

The Death of the Kiwi Bach

There was once a time when everyone pitched tents on the lawn. Now, big business is taking over the Kiwi summer holiday.

The Book That Changed my Life

Discovering the whole world in Lonesome Dove. And in Wagon Days.