Category: Otherwise

Lundy Sunset, 11 July 2025, © 2025 Bobby Crosby At dusk in a Devonian rainforest, besieged by owls and deer and ferns, I began reading the English translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009). It had been indirectly recommended to me, by way of finding it on my…

Presence, 5 December 2024, © 2024 Bobby Crosby My friend Edward Unwin recently sent me a copy of Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, two brothers who wrote some of the best-known Soviet science fiction outside of Russia from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. Famously, the novel inspired the 1979 film Stalker,…