Those who know me personally were somewhat taken aback when I began circulating the early drafts of this editorial. “Oliver!” They cried. “We haven’t heard you say anything even remotely political since 1988 when, in a fit of schoolboy pique, you may very well have said that Denis Thatcher ‘surely keeps his fingers sticky!’ Why…
When the Picture Stops Moving
I have a lot of friends who don’t watch movies at all. They’re “too long.” For some reason video games with multi-hundred hour playtimes are mainstream consumer art now, while 90 minute movies (forget about “film”) are becoming increasingly niche. I realized something was really wrong, though, when I saw the dang dungeons and dragons…
The Truth Was Out There
“They declassed everything in the twenties,” Bart said, his high reedy voice whispering incongruously from his fat, white stubbled mouth. “Crash recovery. Project zodiac. All of it. You hear what I’m telling you? Not only is there life out there, but it’s interested in us. It came here. Confirmed. All in state department black and…
Overheard at Foreign Affairs’ Editorial Office
How’s the art coming this quarter? Well, the illustration of the globe as a cube and also as an origami star is in It’s a perfect visualization of our changing world. What about the globe as a crumpled up piece of paper? We’re still working on it, sir. I got a submission of the globe…
BUFF NIXON
An experiment in utopian science fiction