[I first posted a version of this short essay on the forum at thumped.com and am reposting here in a money-for-old-rope effort (except I...

ln his not-quite-seminal but still great novel Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck included a couple of chapters entitled “Hooptedoodle”, in...

I have just finished reading Cixin Liu's epic trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past and I think I need to take a break from reading, from...