nthposition online magazine

Brave New Worldviews

by Joe Palmer

[ opinion - january 09 ]

"Science and religion both assert the same thing: the Universe operates according to rules and that those rules can be discerned. Both science and religion are wrong. You cannot get to a place where you can make out the rules from there."

The man who never laughed out loud

by David Finkle

[ fiction - january 09 ]

A post-Christmas bagatelle for the publishing world.

East Seventh Street: Christmas, 1937

by Harry Reynolds

[ places - january 09 ]

"I am nine years old. There is a God. Jesus Christ is his son."

This republic of suffering

review by Robert Philbin

[ bookreviews ]

"Almost 7,000 corpses and 3,000 dead animals lay scattered across the Pennsylvania landscape after Gettysburg - an estimated six million pounds of human and animal flesh, bloating in the summer heat."

Noise in the Machine: the homogeneous chaos blues

by Jim Chaffee

[ opinion - january 09 ]

"This mushy-headed blather arises as an attempt to simulate science-talk to people inured to comic book encapsulation of the most complex ideas."

Letter to Bill

by Philip Wiley

[ fiction - january 09 ]

"Tangers, a lovable old bitch. Still not winning any beauty contests but she's still got something."

What's happening to "change"?

by Robert Philbin

[ opinion - january 09 ]

"We are waiting to see what the future will actually deliver. Of course, the team of rivals aren't rivals at all. Some of them, in fact, are part of the problem..."

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

by Tom Ruffles

[ strangeness - january 09 ]

A re-examination and a possible explanation of the famous ghost photograph.

The near and the far

by Colin Wilson

[ opinion - december 08 ]

The death of Romanticism "was the collapse of belief in the power of the human spirit to achieve new levels of freedom. The Industrial Revolution only made things worse, for it made the poets and artists feel that if this was what conquest was all about, then they preferred defeat." An excerpt from Wilson's forthcoming book, Mindforce: The Search for Power Consciousness.

Recommended reading

My temporary son

by Timeri N Murari

[ people - february 05 ]

An orphan's tale.

The waxwing slain

by Seamus Sweeney

[ fiction - april 04 ]

"The history of literature - the movements filled with lofty ideas, the endless manifestos and counter-manifestos, the all-too-serious sense of mission - can be considered a history of envy."

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

[ cdreviews ]

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.

Random reading

Question Eleven

by Leuren Moret

[ politics | opinion - november 03 ]

"According to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines for occupational exposure, the 186,000,000 grams of depleted uranium released during the Gulf War combat operations is enough to poison every American man, woman, and child 100 times. "