Jonathan Crain
Book lover, freelance writer, and history enthusiast. I interview authors of fiction and non-fiction, sharing thoughtful conversations on social media and Substack. Exploring the stories behind the storytellers and more.
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Entertainment as Extermination in Matt Dinniman's "Operation Bounce House"
Matt Dinniman’s Operation Bounce House is a science-fiction novel that recognizes what many genre books miss: satire requires coherent systems. Rather than exaggerated caricatures or easy targets, the novel builds a tightly reasoned future...
Nicholas Fogg's Material History of the Elizabethan Stage
On December 28, 1598, about sixteen men assembled in Shoreditch with saws and axes. They dismantled The Theatre piece by piece, moving its timbers across the Thames to build the Globe. This armed demolition, reconstructed by Fogg from court...
Debunking Easter Island's Fall in Mike Pitts's "Island at the Edge of the World"
I first encountered Easter Island in the 1994 film Rapa Nui—unsettled, intrigued, and certain the story was incomplete. Further reading only deepened my skepticism: I found environmental parables, racialized speculation, and assertions that...
The Warlord and the Statesman: Adrian Goldsworthy's "Augustus"
I requested this advance copy under the mistaken impression that it was a new book. Only after reading a quarter of the text did I realize I had encountered it before, having been originally published in 2014 by Yale University Press. This...
Melodramatic Machines and Fragile Omnipotence: Iain M. Banks's "Excession"
First published in 1996 and soon to be reissued by Orbit, Excession occupies a distinctive position within the Culture series. It is neither an accessible introduction nor an obscure installment. Instead, it stands as one of the series’s mo...
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