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I read Pavane by Keith Roberts last year , and it is among the greatest English novels of the 20th century. A beautiful work that is seldom...

For no reason whatsoever, here's Leigh Bowery doing his thing.

A really interesting video from the Acid Horizon comrades. Worth watching even if you're not interested in SF.

Years ago I remember Dara Ó Briain saying that, as entertainment products, video games are unique because they actively work against the pla...

Some of the greatest nights out I've had have been with comrades, but the left does have a dour, super serious, and dull reputation. Mo...

In this excellent edition of Downstream , Ash Sarkar talks to friend-of-the-blog Juliet Jacques about her latest short story collection, Var...

Not all of the arts, obviously. Recalling the time when Sir George Young said "The homeless? Aren’t they the people you step over when...

The original two series of Twin Peaks were good fun. Yes, at the start of the 1990s a series about a dead woman who'd experienced chi...

The future is indefinitely delayed and may never arrive. I haven't written much/at all about Mark Fisher's work for no particular ...

Broadsheet litcrits consider Glamorama among the blackest of Bret Easton Ellis's sheep. It's over long, it's repetitive, it g...

Not long ago, Morrissey said he couldn't listen to Smiths songs any more. Following his endorsement of Anne Marie Waters, For Britai...

Last week there was a minor kerfuffle in the press and social media about a photography book. This doesn...

There are some important milestones in video gaming. Like literature, music, and film, it has its seminal moments. What counts are a game...

This tweet by Ellie Mae O'Hagan planted a seed. Strip away the populist politics for a moment, what is it that UKIP's chosen symb...

One problem when you have an market-based economic system built around production for profit, is that those with binding decision-making pow...