the disgruntled democrat

 Have you ever stood alone in the wilderness, where the only sounds that break the silence are the breathing of the forest or the distant ro...

The thing about deciding to write a story set in the future is what to make of the present and how it creates a trajectory of plausible even...

  Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes muc...

I started watching the adaptation of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. I loved the novel and am enjoying the seri...

I don't need to imagine a dystopian future. The Anthropocene epoch is already here. Extreme weather events are happening right now where...

Spectacularly creative and emotionally gripping. The Lost Souls of Guayaquil is an original and thought-provoking novel about life, death, a...

First, there was the plague. In February 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic seized the planet, disrupting normal life, and taking more than five...