scary tales for scary times
- Written by: Ali Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
Edilson Borges/UnsplashProgress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.
Progress, then, is indistinguishable from destruction – creative,...





















