This Is Not the Deal
Always never read, fine print is capital's surrealist masterpiece, but will we ever wake up from the dream?
Eco Chamber
Out of all the tricks and games attempted in Anthony Walsh's debut novel Eco's Echoes, he proves most successful at failure.
Camp Walker
Our reporter in South Korea sneaks onto the base to see what an amicable military occupation looks like.
Stalker/Zona
Geoff Dyer's book about a movie about a journey to a room. But if Dyer is Stalker, then the reader becomes Writer, who can do whatever he wants with the text.
Pont Blank
This is the story of how I came to be profoundly disillusioned with the modernist photographic tradition. Through careful study of their work, it came to my attention that Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, men whom I had once taken for heroes, were involved in the systematic corruption of the
Les Trahisons des Clercs
I began to think more carefully about why Sartre might have been photographed. Cartier-Bresson took the portrait in 1946, less than a year since Sartre…
Betrayal!
If I were to start telling people about my discovery – as I’d be obliged to, once I’d identified the last photo – I’d also…
Naked and/or Dead
I connected the photographs with string and hung them from my office wall. Before me I saw fragments of an entire tradition caught up in…
Forest and Trees
Something untoward had been going on – there no longer seemed to be any question about that. But I thought perhaps I could make up…
The Third Man
I returned to Brassaï’s photo of the Pont des Arts. Though the fog seemed to have grown thicker. I could still make out its four…
Nightspawn
The other man in the first photograph is Gyula Halász. Operating under the pseudonym ‘Brassaï’, he left his native Hungary in 1924 and moved to…
Time Comes Around
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of the Pont des Arts taken by Kertész in 1929. Taken from inside the…