My name is Adrian Graham. I live in England, and write fiction. In 2019 I completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. What else? I blog on this site, make music, and take photos. Email me if you have a question.
Empire, Racism, the Slave Trade, and Statues
29th
‘Little Joe’
28th
‘Things to Come’
26th
‘Hans Haacke: 4 Decades’
25th
Art
21st
Buildings
Graffiti
A Failure of Leadership
20th
How I Write a Novel
Paintwork
Storytelling Environments
Hack the System
14th
‘Escape From New York’
13th
‘Portrait of a Lady On Fire’
Stories: Celebrations and Warnings
7th
‘The Myth of the American Sleepover’
What Are Stories For?
‘Under the Silver Lake’
6th
Cinderella and the Euro Millions
3rd
‘The Assistant’
On Text Editors and Word Processors
2nd
‘Parasite’
Starting a novel
Coffee and Writing
1st
The Dead Are Alive Again
The Rise of Stupid Logic
First Person Vs Third Person Viewpoints
31st
Lee Child: The Reading Experience
The Zoot Suit Riots
30th
Who is Jack Reacher?
‘Reacher Said Nothing’
Jack Reacher in First Person
‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’
‘Damnation Alley’
24th
‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’
Walls and Membership, Groups and Belonging
18th
‘Skin’
17th
‘The Hunger Games’
You’re the Critic
Notepads, Blogging, Minimalism, Web Design, and Ideas
11th
‘12 Monkeys’
10th
‘A Boy and His Dog’
Stakes (and Limitations)
Surprise Vs Suspense
‘Turbo Kid’
The Lockdown Haircut
The Coffee Shop Analogy
‘The Maze Runner’
‘The Warehouse’
Total Information
27th
‘A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World’
Models of Time in Storytelling
Scarves, Veils, and Other Female Head Garments
Science Fiction Genre as Literary Fiction
Thoughts On Historical Fiction
When Science Fiction Makes Predictions
‘The Favourite’
23rd
‘The Wall’
19th
‘Station Eleven’
12th
‘Weapons of Choice’
Thoughts on Science Fiction
5th
I’m Reading Differently
4th
Experts in the time of COVID-19
‘Outliers’: The Story of Success
‘Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion’
‘Bait’
22nd
‘Monos’
‘The Science of Storytelling’
Where is Westworld Going? (Again.)
‘Westworld’ (Season 3)
‘Housesitter’
15th
‘The Book of Eli’
The Luxury of Personal Creativity
Living Science Fiction
Meg Hewitt
‘Sky Saw’
‘Joker’
9th
‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’
8th
Bubbles
Early 90s Gloom
‘City Slickers’
‘Tristram Shandy’
The Extinction Story
‘Arlington Park’
‘Stranger Things’ (Season 3)
16th
‘The Virgin Suicides’
‘Red Dawn’
‘Stalker’
‘The Dark Room’
The Shock Ending
‘The Man of Bronze: A Doc Savage Adventure’
10 Books That Influenced My Writing
‘The Big Country’
The Second Person Point of View
‘Blast of Silence’
Unreliable Women
‘Planet of the Apes’
‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’
‘Falconer’
Insomnia
Adventures in Space
‘Black Rain’
‘The Long Good Friday’
‘Wonder Boys’
‘Rising Sun’
‘Killing Commendatore’
The Christmas Story
‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’
‘Hereditary’
‘Texasville’
‘Lost’
‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’
The Place is Alive
The Three Ages of the Storyteller
The Rumination of ‘Herzog’, and ‘Ravelstein’
The ‘Other’
The ‘Decisive Moment’ in Storytelling
‘Get Out’
Adaptations: Turning Words into Film
From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Demon Seed’
‘Blade Runner 2049’
‘Altered Carbon’
‘Rosemary’s Baby’
‘Straw Dogs’
‘Last Year in Marienbad’
Snow
The End
The Beginning
Chinese People in Western Film
The Coming-of-Age Story in Film
Whitewashing
Reboots with Women
Apple’s Brave New World
The Hero’s Journey
‘The Outer Limits’
Swaps, Leaps, Avatars, Mutations, and Other Body Transformations
‘Arrival’ Vs ‘Life’
The System
‘The Last Picture Show’ Vs ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’
Salvation, Liberation and Freedom in Storytelling
Family
‘Badlands’
‘Assault on Precinct 13’
The Enemy Impostor, and the Enemy Within
The Psychopathic Character
Virtual Worlds
The Perception of Reality
Masks
‘Mad Men’ Vs ‘Breaking Bad’
Self and Selflessness in Storytelling
McCullin
You Are What You Wear in Fiction
The Post-Apocalyptic Story
‘Nocturnal Animals’
‘Moon’ Vs ‘Oblivion’
‘Annihilation’
The Pointless Quest
Anton Corbijn Inside Out
‘Prometheus’ Vs ‘Interstellar’
‘The IT Crowd’ Vs ‘The Big Bang Theory’
‘The Postman’ Vs ‘Waterworld’
Repetition in Storytelling
‘Videodrome’
‘The Seven Basic Plots’
‘Outland’ Vs ‘Pale Rider’
Surrealism in Films
The Interview: ‘The Paris Review’
‘They Live’
‘Charley Varrick’
The Swimming Pool in Film
‘The Thing’ Vs ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
In Praise of the Cheese Sandwich
The Comic ‘Fat Man’ Character
Kale is Overrated
In Praise of a Good Bath
In Praise of a Decent Cup of Coffee
‘Jaws’ Vs ‘Predator’
The Cold War
‘Lawnmower Man’
Cold Brew Coffee
On Murakami’s Novel ‘Norwegian Wood’
Designed Simplicity
Subterranean Stories
‘Five’ Vs ‘The Omega Man’
‘Moonlight’
‘Ice Cold in Alex’ Vs ‘Play Dirty’
‘At the Earth’s Core’ Vs ‘Planet of the Apes’
The Unreliable Narrator
‘Kung Fu’
The Dystopian Future
‘Is Dirty Harry a Fascist?’
Robots and Humans
The Buddy Movie
‘I, Daniel Blake’
‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’
‘The Third Man’ Vs ‘The Long Goodbye’
‘Passengers’
Non-Linear Storytelling
The American Dream Goes Dark
‘The Graduate’: who is the monster?
From Cubism to The Matrix: Representing the 4th Dimension
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Vs ‘Rushmore’
The Working Class in Film
‘Westworld’ Vs ‘Blade Runner’
Procrastination Heaven
‘Telefon’
Monochrome Photography and the Dark Aesthetic
‘The Door in the Floor’ Vs ‘The Ice Storm’
‘The 39 Steps’
Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Editing
‘Serpico’
‘Interstellar’ Vs ‘The Martian’
‘The Shining’
‘Metropolis’
‘The Girl on the Train’
Monsters and Heroes
The ‘Someone’ and ‘No One’ in Fiction
‘In The Night Garden’
The Influence of Romanticism on Cinema
‘Barton Fink’
‘THX 118’ Vs ‘Logan’s Run’
‘The Terminal Man’
‘Dredd’ Vs ‘High Rise’
The RV in Storytelling
‘Westworld’ Thoughts (Season 1)
‘The Outer Limits’ (‘New Series’)
‘Prince of the City’
‘Nosferatu’
The Middle-Class in Film
‘Where Eagles Dare’ Vs ‘Attack’
Where is ‘Westworld’ Going?
‘Southern Comfort’
‘Profit’
The Conspiracy Story
The Military in Storytelling
‘Seconds’
‘Stranger Things’
‘Jetlag’
‘Planet Earth’
‘Mulholland Drive’
‘Sharky’s Machine’
‘The Arrangement’
Peace of Mind in a Complicated World
British Post-War Identity
Why Are People so Angry?
‘Capricorn One’ Vs ‘The Truman Show’
Stories of National Identity and Self
The New Up!
‘Piccadilly’
Pornification
‘The Revenant’
Car Adverts in The New Yorker (1975)
Spirits Adverts in The New Yorker (1975)
Turning Off Social Media
