Consisting of Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines (of The Auteurs), and John Moore (formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain), Black Box Recorder were an indie band who flourished around the turn of the ce… Read More

Fred Skulthorp has visited the Blue Wall for Unherd and found it to be a land of discontent:Travelling through Surrey, from the quiet villages nestled in the North Downs to its London border… Read More

Depeche Mode have shared new song ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’. The band will release new album ‘Memento Mori’ on March 24th, their first full length statement since 2017&rsq… Read More

Students of history learn the importance of primary sources; eyewitness accounts of what people saw and did when all of this history was going on. You also learn that there’s a great n… Read More

Sara E. Seo bookends her book, Policing the Road: How cars transformed American Freedom (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980860 ) between two cases. In one case, Wil… Read More

During February and March, 2020, I’ll be giving a series of talks and presentations in Slovenia, Italy and England. The tour is in support of Applied Ballardianism: Memoir f… Read More

Dr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. In a recent interview about his latest non-fiction book, The Incurable Romantic, a clinical memoir exploring the psychopathology of lo… Read More

Image from  https://locativeliterature.wordpress.com/sections/section-1/  Genre: Science Fantasy/CrimePub First Date: 2009Publisher: Pan BooksLength: 373 pagesPaperback : Local Lib… Read More

  ABOVE: J.G. Ballard and his friend Dr Christopher Evans in the Sunday Mirror, 1968. The article describes their proposed play for the ICA, entitled Crash!. It was to feature a reconst… Read More

Luke Evans as Richard Wilder in High-Rise (dir. Ben Wheatley, 2016). “Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.” ― J.G. Ballard, Hi… Read More

By Andrew Frost Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970). Photo: George Steinmetz, 2002. Tacita Dean’s new film, JG, is currently on view at the Arcadia University Art Gallery, G… Read More