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Welcome to the Pit Stop! This is a new, ongoing series of reviews where I look at the world of driving games and sim racing. In my last installment, I took a look at the GTLite Cockpit from Next Level Racing. This time around, we’ll be mixing things up a bit by looking at an arcade driving machine, the latest release from Arcade1Up. What Is The Fast & The Furious Deluxe Arcade Machine? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably familiar with The Fast & The Furious series of movies, the tenth installment of which opens today in...

Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents oftenthe first page. In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page. Here’s the question: Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents. So, before you read the excerpt, take 30 cents from your pocket or purse. When you’re done, decide what to do with those three dimes...

Madeleine Silver discovers The Arch - a masterclass in clever interiors nestled amid some of Wiltshire’s best sporting countryThe Arch at Fonthill is cartoon grand: a soaring masterpiece built in 1755 to mark the entrance to the original Fonthill estate and welcome a steady flow of Georgian A-listers from Turner to Byron who visited this rolling corner of Wiltshire. THE ARCH, FONTHILL Perched on the hill beyond is Fonthill House, home of Lord Margadale, and sprawled out below is a slice of bucolic bliss for every season: hyperactive spring lambs, cricketers basking in a summer haze or the jostle of...

I haul myself up, a few triangular leaves drifting down to land in the thick carpet at my feet, where they fall in a continuous cycle all year round—lurid yellow, golden-orange, pale buttery-green. Slugs and snails are in a bust year, but woodlice are thriving, tiny armoured bodies scurrying around in the decomposing leaf litter. I’m reaching for a particularly bright unmarred leaf, thinking of Harry’s collages, when a breathy bark freezes me to the spot. It’s followed by a low gravelly howl that rips through the air and through my chest. They’re close. In town. All thoughts of colours...

We all agree here, unanimously, to a person, that Ari Aster is a great director with two undeniable modern horror classics to his name. And it goes without saying that A24 is a cool company that has produced many good and/or interesting movies*, and even if you weren’t into those it would be weird to have some kind of a grudge against them. Since we have always been on the same page about those things, I’m sure we also agree that it’s cool that the company now let Aster step outside of horror for a much more niche dark comedy...