Literature Archives - Trebuchet Magazine

Unknown Shakespeare Records Found

12/09/2018 Naila Scargill

Previously unknown documents concerning William Shakespeare’s father John, discovered in The National Archives, throw new light on his son’s early life and developing political views. (read more)

Artistry in Assembly: Lillianna Pereira

10/11/2017 Anise Stevens

Human experience (including the artist’s) is not necessarily unique (read more)

And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

10/10/2017 SWP

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot? (read more)

Loitered Lens: Trebuchet Print Issue 2 Launch (Structure and Architecture)

02/10/2017 Trebuchet Magazine

Looking for Lola at the club down in old Soho…. Scenes from the launch of Trebuchet’s second print edition (read more)

Load, Wind, Release! Trebuchet Issue Two Launch

25/09/2017 Trebuchet Magazine

Azimuth calculated, trajectory defined. Trebuchet’s second print issue – launched (read more)

Nitwit! Egghead! Twerp! Searching for the Funniest Words

03/08/2017 Trebuchet News

Booty, booby, nitwit and hooter among the words which make us laugh most (read more)

Write Better Words: The Nuts and Bolts

27/07/2017 Leo Babauta

The good stuff is there in your mind – getting it onto paper just takes discipline (read more)

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless…. How to Age Well

12/07/2017 Phil Rockstroh

Existence is simply meaningless dance of fleetingly animated dust, unless we activate our soul (read more)

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017 Kailas

Two of the West’s most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head (read more)

Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017 Phil Rockstroh

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self (read more)

Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17

18/04/2017 Trebuchet Magazine

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more (read more)

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017 Radik Kagirov

t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the present information boom and flourishing ‘attention economy’ era it is a necessity to (read more)

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The Ivory Tower, Trump, and the Eclipse of Dignity

06/01/2017 Michael Eden

If a Trump win came partly as a reaction to ‘the PC brigade’, it has to be said they presented an easy target (read more)

Science & Modern Man, the right (and wrong) way to take Wyndham Lewis.

12/12/2016 Michael Eden

Lewis looked upon his contemporaries with a measure of scorn, but at least attempted to engage them positively (read more)

WHAT Does it Say About Me?! Should Fiction Depict Real People?

07/12/2016 Trebuchet News

When artistic freedom violates somebody’s privacy (read more)

Friends as Enemies and Enemies as Friends…. (Wyndham Lewis)

21/11/2016 Michael Eden

Despite popular myth, Wyndham Lewis (through sheer stubbornness and inflated ego) actually avoided association with Fascism. (read more)

Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

14/11/2016 Michael Eden

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism. (read more)

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016 SWP

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far (read more)

Sleep Not Before the Winter’s Gate (Insomnium)

27/09/2016 Fraggle

Epic and ambitious melodic death metal from Finland’s Insomnium (read more)

Pop Symbols and Unsettling Icons (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu @ Koko)

25/07/2016 Kailas

On hyper-reality, symbolism, visual constructs and pop music. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Koko (read more)

Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)

27/06/2016 Michael Eden

150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt. (read more)

Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016 Michael Eden

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. (read more)

Don’t Eat the Meatballs? The Real Message of Sweden’s Rök Runestone

05/05/2016 Trebuchet News

New interpretation of the Rök runestone inscription changes view of Viking Age (read more)

Losers, Lawnmowers and The Grave of Jack Kerouac

12/03/2016 Scott Laudati

Hitting the road for the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Scott Laudati wends a weary way to the writer’s graveside (read more)

After the Revolution, Beyond the Randian Superhero.

10/03/2016 Michael Eden

Should we be grubbing for the favours of the benevolent altruist, or forging a fairer world for all? Essay on the false prophets of philanthropy (read more)

Sure we can, but SHOULD we? Digital Head and the Ethics of Intelligence

05/02/2016 Michael Eden

Examining the unpredictable and disruptive possibilities contained within new technologies (read more)

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016 SWP

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends (read more)

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)

18/01/2016 Michael Eden

Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas (read more)