Death of a Dystopian, my article on the life and work of J. G. Ballard is up on Reason. “His writing is obsessed with the territories where the organic meets the inorganic; it is absurdist, bleak, vivid, and awake to the psychological effects of media and manmade landscapes. In the words of the novelist Martin Amis, ‘Ballard is quite unlike anyone else; indeed, he seems to address a different—a disused—part of the reader’s brain.’”