On this website I shall bit by bit bring together scattered pieces of my work – more academic in the earlier years, now tending increasingly towards literary prose.

As far as the older essays are concerned, their appearance here is a kind of test:
Do they bear re-reading? Are there themes which link them, lend some kind of coherence? Are they no more than occasional pieces or do they constitute a body of work?

At the same time I want to add new or more recent articles or stories as well as comment both on some of the older pieces and on current phenomena. Whatever the subjects touched on I hope the website or at least some of what is to be found on it will find interested readers.

Martin Chalmers

 

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