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Alan Bray
Jul 21, 20225 min read
Are You A Woman Or A Tree?
A lot of contemporary fiction can be viewed as a confluence of plot and character. An important concept is the character arc—the...
Alan Bray
Jul 14, 20224 min read
The Game - Primeval and Other Times
A strong thread in the episodic stream of threads in Primeval and Other Times concerns Squire Popielski and the Game. In mid-life, the...
Alan Bray
Jul 7, 20223 min read
I Am, I Said - Primeval and Other Times
The title—Primeval and Other Times—refers to a central concept in fiction, time, although the word can have more than one meaning. Each...
Alan Bray
Jun 30, 20225 min read
Primeval And Other Times
This week, a new story, Olga Tokarchuk’s 1996 Primeval and Other Times, originally written in Polish and translated to English by Antonia...