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Butcherboy
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
Max Lanius
May 22, 20203 min read
Book review: Are We All Lemmings And Snowflakes?
Given that her rage-inducing early novels are what incensed me to start a blog in the first place, it might be surprising that I returned...
Max Lanius
Apr 2, 20208 min read
The man whose name was writ in water: what made Keats a man before his time
In a fit of rivalrous rage, Lord Byron, one of the most infamous romantic poets, scathingly deemed John Keats' poetry to be "mental...
Max Lanius
Mar 15, 20207 min read
All God's Gifts
I knew there was something off this morning. I could feel it, change glittering in the stagnant air.
Max Lanius
Mar 13, 20204 min read
Call The Cleaners: notes on the birth of One Man's Trash
One man's trash is another man's habit...
Max Lanius
Mar 7, 20208 min read
The case of Globish: can a universal language ever exist?
Should English become the global language of business - or is this just another form of colonialism?
Max Lanius
Mar 6, 20204 min read
Mars VS. Venus - Are women biased against in the English language?
Do men and women really talk differently, or is difference a thing of the past?
Max Lanius
Mar 3, 20205 min read
Death of a hermit
Here’s the magic-man, he says. Here’s the doctor.
Max Lanius
Feb 28, 20202 min read
Blackwater Rag Market
You can't get it anywhere else.
Max Lanius
Feb 21, 20203 min read
Seasonal demand
Buy, beg, borrow, steal - it's all the same. Anything to fill the void.
Max Lanius
Feb 14, 20203 min read
Something stupid
There's blood under my nails, drying in black, crusty rings. I'm the worst guest going.
Max Lanius
Feb 7, 20202 min read
Bourne-again feminism: how misplaced activism can haunt YA fiction
Young adult fiction is a broad umbrella, but one specific sub genre of it is UKYA (United Kingdom Young Adult), which usually focuses on...
Max Lanius
Feb 5, 20209 min read
Zaba: a twisted walk on the weird side of a psychedelic jungle
Oxford's indie experimentalist group Glass Animals first flew onto my radar when I discovered Youth, a sun-soaked track crammed with...
Max Lanius
Feb 2, 20206 min read
Boys will be boys
I played it because it was his favourite game.
Max Lanius
Feb 2, 20202 min read
Home baking
I always have what the lady's having.
Max Lanius
Feb 1, 20202 min read
Parly trains
Behold – the last train to leave Burrwick Croft station. The final journey.
Max Lanius
Jan 31, 20206 min read
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