Art's Forgotten Places
Originally posted on the Quietus here. Daniel Fraser gets to grips with the banal, the bleak and the beautiful in the second instalment of the Norwegian writer’s intense literary memoir ...
First things first, here is the commercial to which I am referring: Pepsi: the Choice of a New Generation David Foster ...
Few books can claim to capture the juxtaposition of surreal darkness, sexual frustration and juvenility which are essential and simultaneous components of the apex of adolescence quite like Jonathan Barrow’s ...
To discover The Peregrine is to discover the secret of flight: to betray humankind and beat a great retreat; to flee beyond the horizon. It is a convergence of the ...
A Norwegian phenomenon. A controversial family saga. A modern Proust. My Struggle (published in the UK as A Death in the Family) is being talked about everywhere and has become ...
The poet and critic Christopher Hampton died at his home in Montmorillon on 28 April. Christopher was born in London and, studying first as a musician, he worked for a ...
On Monday night I had the pleasure of attending Slavoj Zizek’s lecture at the new Central St Martins campus coinciding with the release of his new book on Hegel, Less ...
McDonald’s is the most philosophically valuable place one can consume food in the 21st Century. In a world where healthy eating, smoothies, 5-a-day-nazis, gastro-pubs, gastronomic engineering etc. promulgate a new ...
Requiem is a hymn for a master, a lament for a foreign land adopted by its author, a multiplicity. The book’s premise, and the narrative with which the reader is presented, ...
This documentary film examines the work of W. G. Sebald, in particular Rings of Saturn, recreating with black and white images the walk around Suffolk which forms the action of ...
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