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Articles on the Times on Saturday 19/06/2010

There was a piece, by Alan Franks, entitled ‘Wild Things (Nature writing: it’s the new rock ‘n’ roll)’, in the Times on Saturday (June 19). It includes a brief account of a walk I took with Richard Mabey, down the canal to the Olympic Park. (I have done an introduction for the reissue of his [...]

There is a nice letter in the new issue of ‘Sight & Sound’

There is a nice letter in the new issue of ‘Sight & Sound’ about the piece I did on Fritz Lang’s ‘M’. Iain Updated 15/07/2010 This is the letter from Rajko Radovic of Toronto. ‘One does not read Iain Sinclair’s ‘M: Murder in the City’ (Sight & Sound, April 2010), one watches it like a [...]

A little more insight into how archives work

After Texas, I have a little more insight into how archives work. The period of quarantine, the killing of bugs that live in paper, and then the filing and arranging, so that it is quite possible to feel posthumous while still breathing (more or less). It was not unlike walking through dimly-lit catacombs, viewing a [...]