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A follow-up to last year’s list. Seeing as Joy Division are very much in the news at the moment with the release of Control and the re-issue of the albums, I thought a post-punk theme would be appropriate. The period which immediately followed punk in the late Seventies saw a lot of doom being imported […]

Battle of the bloodsuckers
| Jeremy Dyson looking for the greatest screen Dracula.

Lampris Guttatus (Moonfish).
Some bones for Halloween… Have a good one.
Photograph from Evolution (in Action): Natural History Through Spectacular Skeletons, a book of striking animal skeleton pictures by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and Patrick Gries.

The Mercury Theatre on the air.
Being a long-time fan of both HG Wells and Orson Welles, the latter’s radio production of War of the Worlds with the Mercury Theatre group has always held a special fascination. This was staged sixty-nine years ago today, October 30th, 1938, and famously caused panic among listeners who missed […]

Harlan Ellison.
“You have somebody who is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.”
Neil Gaiman on Harlan Ellison, and so say all of us. The quote comes from a trailer for Dreams with Sharp Teeth, a new documentary about Ellison’s life and work which, as far as I can tell, has yet to […]

Conceptual art should be allowed to speak for itself
| Good luck with getting any gallery to agree with that. The NS ponders Doris’s crack.

The Flandrin pose turns up again on Flickr.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive

Horror in the shadows
| Algernon Blackwood profiled.

CM, JC & EC photographed by Eric Ogden.
First an Oprah interview, now a feature in TIME; the famously reclusive Cormac McCarthy is almost becoming gregarious. The TIME piece is only a short sit-down between CM and the Coen Brothers which serves to promote the forthcoming film of No Country for Old Men but it’s still […]

The most hated album in jazz
| Miles Davis’s On the Corner.