Joseph Brooker on William Eggleston, Portraits, at the National Portrait Gallery The American photographer William Eggleston (b.1939) became celebrated for his images of American people and places in the 1960s and 1970s. The National Portrait Gallery (from 21st July to 23rd October 2016) has assembled
Anthony Bale on Chris Kraus, I Love Dick ‘Men still do ruin women’s lives’. Chris Kraus, I Love Dick Over the summer holidays I try to read books I’ve been meaning to read for a while. This year was no exception; I had been meaning
Isabel Davis on Jang Jin-sung, Dear Leader Jang Jin-sung’s Dear Leader is an astonishing memoir, translated for the English reader by Shirley Lee. The author is an exiled dissent, now living in South Korea, who spent years as an official writer for the North Korean
Joseph Brooker on Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death The science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published novels from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, so A Maze of Death (1970) comes early in the second half of that career. Dick’s fictional universes
Daragh Carville on Michael Hughes, The Countenance Divine To say that The Countenance Divine, the debut novel by Northern Irish writer Michael Hughes, is ambitious would be an understatement. Taking as its point of departure the story of a computer programmer battling both the Millennium Bug