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Subscribe at SubstackMarch 2026
I first wrote the Iran conflict story for What Must Be Stopped in 2018 — before the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2024, before the Iran bombings of 2025, and before the Iran war in 2026. I am not a savant or clairvoyant. Conflict in the Middle East is, sadly, structurally predictable. Here's why.
Read more →April 2026
I have to admit that as a Caucasian author, despite extensive multi-year immersion with multiple different ethnicities, I found myself defaulting to white characters as I wrote. The process of rewriting Kenneth Robinson taught me more than I expected.
Read more →May 2026
The mechanics of tension, pacing, and stakes — and the human questions underneath them.
June 2026
Time travel in fiction isn't really about physics — it's about consequence.
July 2026 · With Photos
A research trip through Lisbon, Seville, Palos de la Frontera, and Granada — visiting the archives, harbors, and landscapes that appear in the novels.
August 2026
Walking 2,162 miles from Georgia to Maine puts you inside a landscape shaped over millennia by the peoples of the eastern woodlands.
A deep look at the geopolitical, historical, and technological conditions under which nuclear conflict becomes possible.
On the craft and responsibility of writing indigenous characters — drawing on two years living with Q'eqchi' Mayan communities.
Pedro Alonso Niño and his brothers sailed with Columbus — and their story complicates everything we think we know.
The transatlantic slave trade is the lens through which most people understand slavery — but it had predecessors that shaped the world Columbus sailed into.
The flat earth myth is a 19th century invention. What Columbus and his contemporaries actually argued about is far more interesting.
At least six islands have been proposed as Columbus's first landfall in October 1492.
Language is the deepest archive a culture leaves behind.
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