Books

Did Philip K. Dick predict the future of surveillance?

With the sad news of Stanley Brouwn's passing, aged 81, we revisit our feature on the elusive artist

A performative tour of libraries in Nairobi

For his new book American Smoke, Iain Sinclair travels in search of the writers who inspired him as a young man

On Eric Hobsbawm's Fractured Times

Jennifer Doyle discusses her new book, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

A new book by Bruce Altshuler explores the history of postwar exhibitions

The radical journal and independent publisher has long been an open-ended enterprise, the product of innumerable people and their own tangled itineraries

An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International

Sifting fact from fiction

National identity and ‘global fiction’

Literature versus art history

Oulipo and the re-release of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him

How do you define jargon?

Richard Meyer’s new publication: What Was Contemporary Art?

'Presentism’ versus ‘future shock’

How writers and filmmakers have responded to that most melancholy of colours

Late-capitalist technologies propelling culture toward terminal inanity and political economy toward plutocratic rapacity is the rightful province of three new novels

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating