UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, researchers prove that Batman is the most ill-equipped superhero, and William S. Burroughs reading The Naked Lunch will be released as an experimental punk album. Our featured book is the short story anthology Mash Up […]
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Literary Loitering 46 – Romans Be Crazy
This week researchers continue to try to prove things that are common sense, Tom Holland finds parallels between Donald Trump and Caligula, Dan Brown upsets teenagers and young adults, and book vending machines are a great idea. Our featured books are Creation Machine by Andrew Bannister and Dead Letters: An […]
Ken Russell: The Great Passions (1965-7)(Review)
How many BBC arts documentaries of the 1960s do you think begin with the exhumation of a mummified corpse, lit by flickering torches and soundtracked by booming horror-movie music? Not many, I’ll wager, but then there weren’t many directors walking the corridors of Broadcasting House who resembled Ken Russell. For […]