The view from the cheap seats: selected nonfiction

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming: the Reading Agency Lecture, 2013

Telling lies for a living...and why we do it: the Newbery Medal Speech, 2009

Four bookshops

Three authors: on Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton; the MythCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech

The pornography of genre, or the genre of pornography

Ghosts in the machines: some Hallowe'en thoughts

Some reflections on myth (with several digressions onto gardening, comics and fairy tales)

How dare you: on America, and writing about it

All books have genders

the PEN Awards and Charlie Hebdo

What the [very bad swearword] is a children's book, anyway? The Zena Sutherland Lecture

These are not our faces

Reflections: on Diana Wynne Jones

Terry Pratchett: an appreciation

On Dave McKean

How to read Gene Wolfe

Remembering Douglas Adams

Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison

On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times

Geoff Notkin: meteorite man

About Kim Newman, with notes on the creation and eventual dissolution of the Peace and Love Corporation

Gumshoe: a book review

SIMCITY

Six to six

Fritz Leiber: the short stories

Hothouse

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and what science fiction is and does

Of time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination

Samuel R. Delany and The Einstein Intersection

On the fortieth anniversary of the Nebula Awards: a speech, 2005

The Bride of Frankenstein

MirrorMask: an introduction

MirrorMask: a Sundance diary

The nature of the infection: some thoughts on Doctor Who

On comics and films: 2006

Good comics and tulips: a speech

A speech to professionals contemplating alternative employment, given at PROCON, April 1997

"But what has that to do with Bacchus?" Eddie Campbell and Deadface

Confessions: on Astro City and Kurt Busiek

Batman: Cover to Cover

Bone: an introduction, and some subsequent thoughts

Jack Kirby: king of comics

The Simon and Kirby Superheroes

The spirit of seventy-five

The Best of the Spirit

Will Eisner: New York stories

The keynote speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards

2004 Harvey Awards speech

The Best American Comics, 2010

Some strangeness in the proportion: the exquisite beauties of Edgar Allan Poe

On The New Annnotated Dracula

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy

From the days of future past: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, by H.G. Wells

Business as usual, during alterations: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, by Cory Doctorow

The mystery of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown

Concerning dreams and nightmares: the dream stories of H.P. Lovecraft

On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber

Votan and Other Novels by John James

On Viriconium: some notes toward an introduction

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: an introduction

Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones

Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

Art and Artifice by Jim Steinmeyer

The Moth: an introduction

Hi, by the way: Tori Amos

Curious wine: Tori Amos II

Flood: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants

Lou Reed, in memoriam: "The Soundtrack to My Life"

Waiting for the man: Lou Reed

Afterword afterword: Evelyn Evelyn

Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Once upon a time

Several things about Charles Vess

The King of Elfland's daughter, Lord Dunsany

Lud-in-the-Mist

The thing of it is: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

On Richard Dadd's The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke

Make good art. Make good art

The view from the cheap seats: real things. The view from the cheap seats

A wilderness of mirrors

The Dresden dolls: Hallowe'en 2010

Eight views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti

So many ways to die in Syria now: May 2014

A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett.