Jul 1, 2012
Untitled painting by Suzanne Van Damme (1901–1986). • Eric Berkowitz, author of Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire, chooses five books for The Browser. • Venus febriculosa is running another competition: Design a new cover for Brian Eno’s Music For Films. • Paul Mayersberg and Tony Richmond on making The Man Who Fell [...]
Mar 27, 2010
Hitchcock and Borges revisited | Johan Grimonprez’s new film, Double Take.
Mar 13, 2010
Sergei Paradjanov: film-maker of outrageous imagination
Mar 10, 2010
Kenneth Anger: ‘No, I am not a Satanist’ | Anger interviewed.
Mar 5, 2010
Thirty years’ editorial labours produce ‘more comprehensible’ Finnegans Wake
Feb 27, 2010
There’s something about Alice | AS Byatt on Lewis Carroll.
Feb 19, 2010
Jorge Luis Borges’s lost translations | A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo.
Feb 14, 2010
Francis Bacon’s private wrestling sessions | Previously unseen images of wrestlers made in Bacon’s studio demonstrate the artist’s love of the visceral.
Feb 12, 2010
Metropolis, mother of science fiction movies, reborn in Berlin
Feb 9, 2010
Wolf Man, Dracula and the beasts that gave birth to cinematic horror | David Thomson on Universal and its stars.
Jan 27, 2010
Penises and caustic soda: the case of the Cambridge antiquities
Jan 17, 2010
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno
Jan 15, 2010
A dream movie revisited | Kubrick’s unmade Napoleon.
Jan 13, 2010
Does horror really work on stage? | Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
Jan 4, 2010
Last man standing: what Cormac McCarthy made of my adaptation of The Road
Jan 4, 2010
From graphic novels to graphic sex: Alan Moore’s history of erotic art
Jan 3, 2010
A walk on the wild side in 70s New York | Edmund White and City Boy.
Dec 29, 2009
Me, Paul Bowles and that forgotten night in Tangier
Dec 12, 2009
The New World: a misunderstood masterpiece? | John Patterson on Terrence Malick’s film.
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Dec 4, 2009
Death in Genoa | Simon Callow plays Oscar Wilde in a drama available as a free download.
Nov 27, 2009
Elizabeth Fraser: the Cocteau Twins and me | Her first interview since 1998.
Nov 26, 2009
Bacon Agonistes | John Richardson on Francis Bacon.
Nov 23, 2009
Demons and beefcake – the other side of Francis Bacon
Nov 22, 2009
Want to know what the 60s were like? Then look at Martin Sharp’s work
Nov 20, 2009
Hollywood’s Favourite Cowboy | Cormac McCarthy and The Road.
Nov 17, 2009
The best films never made | David Lean’s Nostromo? Michael Powell’s The Tempest?
Nov 15, 2009
American inferno | David Vann on the malign magnificence of Blood Meridian.
Nov 14, 2009
Lennon, Manson and me: the psychedelic cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Nov 9, 2009
A life of rhyme | Robert Chalmers meets the great John Cooper Clarke.
Nov 8, 2009
A winter’s tale | Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver.
Oct 31, 2009
Clouzot’s towering inferno | A film called Hell.
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Oct 25, 2009
Orson Welles: The most glorious film failure of them all | David Thomson on why Welles still fascinates.
Oct 20, 2009
Gays are being attacked – but we’re holding hands, heads held high
Oct 13, 2009
The first action heroine | Ellen Ripley and Alien, 30 years on.
Oct 10, 2009
One nation under a Moog | Synth Britannia.
Oct 1, 2009
Philip Pullman ranked second on US banned books list
Sep 26, 2009
La Roux: ‘Of course Lady Gaga’s not my thing’ | Elly Jackson on pop life, androgyny and related matters.
Sep 21, 2009
HG Wells anniversary ignites celebrations
Sep 19, 2009
Mirror, mirror | Simon Callow on The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Aug 30, 2009
TS Eliot revealed as defender of lesbian fiction