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A novel about education delivered by infection feels less like metaphor in 2026 than it did in 1989. Ryman imagined a future London where knowledge is administered virally — literally injected into children, rewriting their minds with pre-packaged learning, producing a population that is competent, …
Read more →Sartre says consciousness can never coincide with itself — belief becomes "troubled belief" the moment you notice it. Laing's patient says the same thing from the inside: "I must never forget myself for a single minute, or else I won't know who I am." The philosopher's fissure is
Harlan Ellison spent 1968 and 1969 screaming at a television set, and the screams were transcribed weekly for the *Los Angeles Free Press*, and then collected into this book, and now — fifty-six years later — they read less like criticism than like field notes from the early stages of a disease we h…
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