Down With Childhood — a mix by Paul Rekret
Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence is out today! Check out this excellent mix by author Paul Rekret showcasing the multitude of ways in which children's voices are used in music. And for more of this
“A hell of a performance”—Warren Ellis reviews No Less Than Mystic
We were delighted to discover this wonderful review of John Medhurst's No Less Than Mystic in the newsletter of Warren Ellis (graphic novelist, writer, author of Normal, Gun Machine, Transmetropolitan, Red and much more). He's kindly given us permission to reprint
Might the “worlds saddest right-wing protest” have a point about Lenin, asks John Medhurst?
If Confederate statues are coming down across the US, should statues of figures like Lenin come down too, as demanded by a small group of Trump supporters this week in Seattle, dubbed the "worlds saddest right-wing protest"? No, says John Medhurst
Carl Neville on Mark Fisher, exorbitant sufficiency and the radical inner child
This is an edited version of a talk given by Carl Neville (author of Resolution Way) at a day of lectures in tribute to Mark Fisher last Saturday, 8th July, at Spike in Berlin. You can see the full list of
For the first time in my life, I don’t feel like things can only get worse — Juliet Jacques
Unlike many London left friends, who’ve been better than me at going to demonstrations, I’ve never met Jeremy Corbyn. To my shame – and perhaps because my anxiety and depression stopped me travelling from Manchester to London for the anti-war
“How the fuck is that even possible?”
Reflections on the last few weeks in UK politics, by John Medhurst, author of the forthcoming No Less Than Mystic: A History of the Russian Revolution for a 21st Century Left (out August 2017). This is a British revolution. As I write, the last few weeks
Come what may this Thursday, the future belongs to the left — Carl Neville
In a sense, Theresa May has done the left a great service by calling an early election. Had she not done so, and had the war of attrition between Corbyn’s enclave and the overwhelmingly hostile Labour right had continued until 2020,
Only got better? David Stubbs on the Blair “revolution” of 1997
This is part one of an edited extract from 1996 and the End of History by David Stubbs, published last year by Repeater. Part two coming next week. “For the future, not the past. For the many, not the few. For
Femme Fatales, ‘Female Psychopaths’ and Narrative ‘Science’: Part Two —Tristam Vivian Adams
This is part two of 'Femme Fatales, "Female Psychopaths" and Narrative "Science"' by Tristam Vivian Adams, author of The Psychopath Factory. Find part one here. Film and Television’s methods for hinting or alluding to the non-conforming private life, to the ‘deviant’
Yeats, Graves & the Bunnymen — Alex Niven
The origin of the luminous phrase ‘killing moon’ is obscure (at least it is to me). Google throws up no reference other than the 1984 Echo and the Bunnymen tune, and a 1994 video game called Under a Killing Moon,