Declan Burke Writes

The essentials of a good story are who, what, where, when and why. The who is your character(s), the what is the plot, the where / when your...

‘Anxiety,’ Kierkegaard said, ‘is the dizziness of freedom.’ Normally I’d disagree; for me, anxiety is more of a response to the claustrophob...

A story can take place across a span of galaxies or it can take place at the bottom of a well. Every story, unless it’s an especially experi...

Reading Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds recently, I was reminded of an Intro I wrote for Knock and Enter , a book I edited during my stin...

Norman Mailer’s The Spooky Art (2003) is a rattlebag of memoir, criticism and testosterone-fuelled opinion (sensitive readers might wish to...