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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 [...]