Literature Archives

A Story of Motherhood in Western Art & Culture

25/02/2021

A large-scale exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark explores maternal roles and relationships as portrayed in Western art, literature, music, religion and historic narratives...

British Library Acquire Mervyn Peake Visual Archive

15/07/2020

The archive will be available for research on completion of cataloguing in 2022, along with an opportunity to see highlights in future British Library exhibitions....

DYN: A Self-styled Rival to Surrealism’s Gaudy Dominance

23/06/2020

Farewell to Surrealism - The Dyn Circle in Mexico traces the attempts of artist Wolfgang Paalen to escape history and reshape experience from the unlikely location of Mexico City, during the Second...

Unknown Hemingway Story Published for First Time

03/06/2020

"Pursuit As Happiness" will be included in a new edition of The Old Man and the Sea, which was originally written in 1951....

Title : Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019

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05/08/2019

Title: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019...

Unknown Shakespeare Records Found

12/09/2018

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....

Artistry in Assembly: Lillianna Pereira

10/11/2017

Human experience (including the artist's) is not necessarily unique...

And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

10/10/2017

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot?...

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

02/10/2017

Looking for Lola at the club down in old Soho.... Scenes from the launch of Trebuchet's second print edition...

Load, Wind, Release! Trebuchet Issue Two Launch

25/09/2017

Azimuth calculated, trajectory defined. Trebuchet's second print issue - launched...

Nitwit! Egghead! Twerp! Searching for the Funniest Words

03/08/2017

Booty, booby, nitwit and hooter among the words which make us laugh most ...

Write Better Words: The Nuts and Bolts

27/07/2017

The good stuff is there in your mind - getting it onto paper just takes discipline...

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

12/07/2017

Existence is simply meaningless dance of fleetingly animated dust, unless we activate our soul...

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self...

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

18/04/2017

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more...

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

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

07/12/2016

When artistic freedom violates somebody's privacy ...

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

Sleep Not Before the Winter’s Gate (Insomnium)

27/09/2016

Epic and ambitious melodic death metal from Finland's Insomnium...

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

25/07/2016

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

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

05/05/2016

New interpretation of the Rök runestone inscription changes view of Viking Age ...

Losers, Lawnmowers and The Grave of Jack Kerouac

12/03/2016

Hitting the road for the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Scott Laudati wends a weary way to the writer's graveside...

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends...

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism

07/11/2015

Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves...

Watching the Hugos burn. Sci-Fi Controversy Wreaks Havoc

21/04/2015

At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse....

The Man Who Brought Fantasy to the Masses [Terry Pratchett Eulogy]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt is fitting that Terry Pratchett, who did so much with the written word, will now have acres upon acres of column inches dedicated...