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Meanwhile elsewhere—” begins Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, depicting an unparticularized city; cars, highways, half-desert and mountains, the ever-rising ocean. Later there’s a description, almost as if a sales pitch for this tourist town.  He says he knows the city has been ravaged by the war but the architectural solutions are so fascinating. The fact that…

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We talk about the supernatural often, but the preternatural – the hazy area in between the natural and the supernatural – doesn’t seem to have the same grip on us. In Rivers Solomon’s haunted house novel Model Home, it pops up early on as a logic of white supremacy: “everything whiteness does can be rationalized…

Mirror glass shows us a world flattened, reversed, uncanny; a portal trompe l’oeil. The sense of unease from staring into it too long—where the known world becomes suddenly unfamiliar and alien—is a feeling also evoked in the strange prose offerings of Ivy Grimes. At the top of 2024, Grimes released her debut novella Star Shapes…

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The Private Notary wakes in darkness. It is November already and though there is no snow on the ground the cold seeps into his quarters. Out in the front room, he stokes up some embers in the wood stove, still glowing from the night before, and prepares a breakfast of tea and a soft boiled…

The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have been a woman. Let’s say you were. It doesn’t make any difference to the gun. What matters is that the…

I stand at the foot of the Palace Mall and its opulent towers, capped by Muscovite-inspired domes, looming before wispy, distant clouds. It was built in three days this past summer. Absent, then present, like May flies, mushroom heads, etc. A cricket chirps so loudly in the dying boxwood adjacent to the parking lot that…

Censorship brings luck. Incredible, but true. Dario Argento. His name alone conjures up terror, gore, bloodshed and chilling soundtracks. On 6 June 2023, the British Film Institute, in collaboration with Cinecittà, decided to pay tribute to the director with a screening of his films at the Southbank arthouse cinema. In the interview he gave to…