However great an invention the Kindle has proven to be, not all books seem quite at home on it. Reading Captive Universe, a 1969 science fiction novel by the prolific American author Harry… Read more Reading Room Review: Captive Universe by Harry Harrison →
There have recently been a host of fashion themed shows held in London, most notably the Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A Museum. For those based in Yorkshire, the Abbey House Museum… Read more Travel Room: How Do I Look? @ Abbey House Museum →
First published in 1964, Nova Express by Williams S Burroughs continued the literary experimentation that he had begun with his earlier books Naked Lunch and Interzone. Like those works, it challenges the… Read more Reading Room Review: Nova Express by William S Burroughs →
Getting my cinematic 2015 off to a great start was James Marsh’s biopic of Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything which opened yesterday. Hawking is an iconic figure even if, like… Read more Film Review: The Thoery of Everything →
In the last few years, Grayson Perry has become an increasingly familiar figure, not just for his art but for his television series. As a cross dressing man who uses traditional crafts such… Read more Review: Grayson Perry – The Vanity of Small Differences at Temple Newsam House →
Strange and Lost Visions 