Content note: racist slur   Come Saturday afternoon, the premier conference on computer micro-architecture will go into session. Professors, graduate students, and industry professionals from around t...

I’m getting ready for the block party: dark eyeliner, obligatory silver glitter (we’re on the moon, after all, we have our fashions), beard trimmed to perfection, hair carefully dishevelled. I do my b...

Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism   There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here be...

Content note: Child death   It was half past midnight when Olga heard the Devil cry.  They were supposed to be wild tonight, the three of them. Cassandra had led the way and Maria and Olga didn’t put ...

His spirit yet dances through the crowd. There, in graffiti refusing grey concrete. There, in the demonstrator’s eye. There, in the slogan splitting hearts. There, in the minister’s tweaked nose.   Sa...

Back in the distant past, by which I mean the late 1970s, the choice of television stations in the UK was limited to three, two of which were from the BBC. I am the youngest of a family of six childre...

Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism   There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here be...