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40 years of gay freedom in England
Coming out of the dark ages.

The Barnbrook Bible, out in September.
Jonathan Barnbrook at the Design Museum, 19 June–10 October 2007.
Jonathan Barnbrook has emerged in the past two decades as one of the UK’s most consistently innovative graphic designers. Pioneering graphic design with a social conscience, Barnbrook makes powerful statements about corporate culture, consumerism, war and international politics. Through his […]

Gore Vidal: the Lion in Winter
Robert McCrum profile of the writer and polemicist.

America’s war on tourists
Well “tourists” sounds like “terrorists”, right?

Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937).
• The legacy of Guernica (the event)
• Echoes of Guernica (the painting)

Time, June 21st 1968. Cover by Roy Lichtenstein.

Do Wah Nanny by Exuma (Kama Sutra LP, 1971).
I came down on a lightning bolt
Nine months in my Mama’s belly.
When I was born, the midwife scream and shout,
I had fire crystals coming out of my mouth.
I’m Exuma, I’m the Obeah Man!

So you’ve listened to Dr John’s Gris-Gris over and over and become addicted to its […]

Four years of war in Iraq.
And counting…

Every issue of the weekly German satire magazine—from 1896 to 1944—is available for download as a free PDF here. Amazing.
Combining brash and politically daring content, a bright, immediate, surprisingly modern graphic style, Simplicissimus featured the work of German cartoonist Thomas Theodor Heine on every cover, and published the work of writers such as Thomas Mann […]

Adam Curtis, producer of brilliant documentary series such as Pandora’s Box, The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares, has a new series starting on BBC 2 next week. The Guardian profiled him and his work today. The Power of Nightmares is available to download here.
Cry freedom
In the cold war paranoia made […]