The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of  Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – my aim being to […]

19 July 2025

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]