“The interplay of fact and fiction in his work is continually shifting but whenever he strikes the right balance, the results can be devastating, and during his peak years this allowed him to become the pre-eminent satirist of his day,” writes David Wills. David Wills on Hunter S. Thompson, literature, fiction and gonzo journalism. Counterculture, […]

“Optimistic nihilism is spreading everywhere and it appears to be the illegitimate fusion of American positivity culture with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche,” reports Ewan Morrison. Novelist Ewan Morrison describes a dangerous trend in mental health advice for Gen Z: optimistic nihilism.

“Without the experience of learning a second language, I might never have managed to get beyond the stigmas of my upbringing,” writes Damian Emba for Areo Magazine as part of our weekly partnership with Queer Majority. When I moved to the United States as a teenager, I couldn’t speak much English. I struggled to have

Steven Tucker explores some “far-out notions infinitely more tantalising than the prospect of biologically and politically mundane alien visitors.” In August 2022, astrophysicist Avi Loeb—now more famous as an aspiring alien-hunter than as a highly accomplished space scientist—suggested that an interstellar object that exploded above the Pacific Ocean in…View Post

“Espionage should be governed by moral norms—not the rules of a game, nor merely a code of professional practice,” argues Andy Owen. Andy Owen on espionage, spies, MI6, MI5, ethics, the depiction of spies, James Bond, spies in literature and in the War on Terror.

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