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Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...

A picture of Picasso and Truth by TJ Clark

TJ Clark : Picasso and Truth

20/11/2013

Clark interprets Picasso’s output in the 1920s as a time marking the end of intimacy and proximity – the end of ‘close-ups’ to things one knows in daily life. ...

Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

07/11/2013

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

Hastings Storytelling Festival

01/11/2013

Hastings Storytelling Festival celebrates the narrative art, and may just restore your faith in a decent yarn. None of which will be 140 characters or less....

Seamus Heaney Tribute : London Irish Centre

04/10/2013

The Irish community in London gathers to celebrate the life and work of the great man....

Pleading in the Blood : Ron Athey [Book Review]

30/09/2013

Seventeen extensive essays from underworld luminaries of art and music attempt to nail Ron Athey’s ethos and individual practice...

The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

25/09/2013

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

Seamus Heaney RIP

30/08/2013

Few Nobel laureates make visits to state schools to discuss poetry. Heaney did....

Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

14/08/2013

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday

08/08/2013

If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it....

Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard

03/08/2013

Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner...

Philip K. Dick : 2-3-74

30/07/2013

'Plastic explosives had been used to open his filing cabinets and many important manuscripts, letters, notes and possessions were missing.' Philip K. Dick's trials continue....

And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2

22/07/2013

A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man...

And Phil Kept Falling

17/07/2013

Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with...

What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

05/06/2013

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

Why is Lovecraft so Sexy?

22/05/2013

'the man himself was an eccentric, though charming, recluse with a genteel nature and an intense dislike of seafood'...

About Trebuchet

23/04/2013

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

Satirical doublespeak? Is Orwell Outdated?

18/03/2013

Satirical doublespeak? New York Times Book Review calls Nineteen Eighty-four “outdated”...

Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

05/03/2013

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

We Are All Dead Now [Stephen Jones]

04/02/2013

Zombie Apocalypse threatens imminently. SWP composes the soundtrack....

James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

Of Grief and Hope

22/12/2012

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

The cookie crumbles beneath the foot of the dancer (Sam Pink)

07/11/2012

'I didn’t write in high school. I barely talk about writing to most people in real life because no one cares and I kind of agree, I like not talking about it. ' Scott Laudati interviews author Sam...

Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

A Progress [Theatre]

19/08/2012

Carl Heap's style has always invited some form of audience involvement, In the past, this has extended to the gentle conscription of audience members for selected moments and scenes – helping to...

Writing Exercise for Trebuchet

09/08/2012

Writing for Trebuchet. If you can give us 500 words on a topic that demonstrates; focus, research, differentiation, and appeal you're what we're looking for. ...

In the Land of Never Was

04/08/2012

In the Land of Never Was: The Last, Desperate Hours of Climate Chaos Deniers‪ and Capitalist Rah-Rahs‬ Often, the world… forever unfolding, recombining, morphing, dying and transforming…...

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