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The next release on the Ghost Box label, Chanctonbury Rings<\/a> is “a blend of folk, electronic music, poetry, prose and environmental sound” by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly. The album will be available in June. Design, as always, is by Julian House. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Clumsy and insensitive translations can ruin the enjoyment of a foreign-language film. Don\u2019t blame us, say the subtitlers pressing film-makers for more appreciation of their art. Anne Billson<\/a> on the difficulties of translating for a medium of moving images.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Expanding Mind: Hypermedia researcher and author Konrad Becker<\/a> talks with Erik Davis about algorithms from hell, the madness of rationality, media seances, and the martial art of freedom.<\/p>\n \u2022 The HP Lovecraft Cat Book<\/em><\/a>: a limited collection of Lovecraft’s writings about cats edited by ST Joshi and illustrated by Jason C. Eckhardt.<\/p>\n Amacher was also inspired by a short story she found in the 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades<\/em>, edited by Bruce Sterling\u2014a tale called Petra<\/em> by Greg Bear, about a grand cathedral, possibly Notre Dame in Paris, in a ravaged, postapocalyptic landscape. Stone gargoyles and other statues mate with humans, creating new hybrids who wander the labyrinthine chambers of the battered house of worship.<\/p>\n Geeta Dayal on composer Maryanne Amacher<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 The novel that wouldn’t leave Anthony Burgess alone: Alison Flood<\/a> on the discovery of a non-fiction continuation of the themes in A Clockwork Orange<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Kristina Foster<\/a> on photographs of Central Asia\u2019s Striking Soviet Architecture.<\/p>\n \u2022 Adrian Shaughnessy<\/a>‘s ten favourite design and visual culture books.<\/p>\n \u2022 William Joel<\/a> on the process behind Helvetica\u2019s 21st century facelift.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Stupid Classics Book Club by Elisa Gabbert<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Haunted Generation<\/a> by Bob Fischer.<\/p>\n \u2022 Haunted Cocktails<\/a><\/em> (1983) by Intro | Haunted Gate<\/a><\/em> (1997) by David Toop | The Universe Is A Haunted House<\/a><\/em> (2002) by Coil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"