Review of Sirât (film 2025)
The film’s name, Sirāt, refers to the bridge Muslim souls must cross to get to paradise — “thin as a hair, sharp as a knife.” Like the scene of The Last Judgement in a...
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another: Book Review
Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, London: Arrow Books, 2024. This is a book about the way humans behave, but more particularly about the possibility that our behaviour — or...
The Man without Qualities: Book Review
It’s unfinished. Whatever you read about it, you’ll learn that much. Musil himself reportedly suggested that the work was not so much a novel as an essay that grew past its boundaries — boundaries...
AI can’t Lie
It could be a poem. Yesterday a friend sent me a short text and a question about whether “my” writer had written it. He was asking about a writer I admire a lot —...
Creative Writing
Remember the phrase, “creative writing”? Did it annoy you? It did me. Now that we’re getting more familiar with ai, I think I know why. And I’m even more annoyed. It goes beyond writing,...