New Intrigue

I recently released a pre-print on what I call the AI Criminal Mastermind, an AI agent that plans, facilitates and coordinates a crime by on-boarding human ‘taskers’.

Brutalism is a style of architecture you either love or hate.

I want to talk about the number of cats on book covers, and in particular, the number of cats on book covers by Japanese authors in Western bookshops.

I’ve been thinking a lot about authorial voice and style lately, the thing that makes each person’s writing unique.

Many articles are now discussing the decline in reading among the younger generation.

The husband’s favourite section of the Tao Te Ching is about the space between things.

When my granddad died many years ago, I spent a long time thinking about the world he grew up in.

Hi all, My new novel Eloquent Graffiti is coming out this month, and is only a dollar in the first few weeks!

In 2023, Byung-Chul Han published Absence, a book that challenged the foundations of Western philosophy.

(Cite as: Krook, Joshua. 2025.