Rowan Fortune
Equinox, a multigenre parable
A review of the novel Equinox by Greg Michaelson and Ruth Aylett. From the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky to the recent Neil Gaiman...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 19
- 4 min
The Passenger, & McCarthy (RIP)
Contains spoilers for The Passenger and Stella Maris. After a while what is not written never happened[…] And every revision of history...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Beyond the Whodunit
This was originally a review of Michelle Angharad Pashley's The Killer Within on Amazon (posted 31 October 2022), but for some...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 11
- 6 min
Femme in Lewisham, a vignette
From God Emperors to Innocent Games I am sitting in a café, in East London. Although it has the trappings of a Costa copycat, it is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 4
- 4 min
Audiobook Reviews
I have recently acquired a subscription to Audible, and below are a smattering of audiobooks I have listened to over the past few days....
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Rowan Fortune
- Feb 18
- 5 min
Being Trans, 2023
A reflection on being trans in 2023. Trans folk talk about gender euphoria and gender dysphoria. But for many, how we discover who we are...
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Rowan Fortune
- Feb 4
- 11 min
Queering Everybody Part II
Review, Holly Lewis, 'The Politics of Everybody', part two. The goal of this book is the development of an internationalist and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 28
- 12 min
Queering Everybody I
Review, Holly Lewis, 'The Politics of Everybody', part one. I write this in the hope of bringing four groups into dialogue: Marxist...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Reading Deeply
Reading Jan Fortune's book, Writing Down Deep. I have no time for stories that lie. I don’t mean stories that are imaginary or...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 7
- 16 min
Goldmann's Wager
Review - Mitchell Cohen’s The Wager of Lucien Goldmann This was a Marxist who did not portray his aspirations for humanity’s future as an...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 31, 2022
- 4 min
Reading 2022
Looking back on a year of reading... We are not closed circuits, plastic wrapped—without words, things still speak to us, jolt us, free...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Materiality of Chainsaw Man
Review - Chainsaw Man I do not typically write reviews of animes on this blog, but I do have an overall fondness for the medium and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 26, 2022
- 5 min
Twitter is Dead
a eulogy to a monster Before I express what I would like to say, I need to caveat this piece. No socialist assessment of the situation...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 19, 2022
- 4 min
Cross-examining Nietzsche and Marx
Review: How to Philosophise with a Hammer and Sickle, Jonas Čeika Overcoming modernity requires not only understanding its economic...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
In Defence of the Pursuit of Happiness
Demanding American utopianism, on virtues, happiness, and flourishing. Regulars to the blog might dimly be aware of a broader project I...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 29, 2022
- 6 min
Routines, Habits and Rituals
Differences and relationalities. “In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.”—R. D....
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
Autism: euphoria in a hostile world
A review of Pete Wharmby’s What I Want to Talk About. Hyperfixations are a massive part of what it is to be autistic. While autism is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Reading as Meditation
Ritual, Habit, and Reading In an effort to reorganize aspects of my life (a cyclical endeavour as I am constantly tinkering with habits...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 1, 2022
- 5 min
Feminine Power
From Lilith to Mami Wata Depictions of the feminine are wrought with conflict over what is even meant by the word. The enculturation of...
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