He Got An Icepick – Murakami’s Piercing
Either Murakami is commenting on the profound alienation of the average person in late-Capitalist society–or he isn’t. Hard to tell. One difficulty of reading in translation, especially between such syntactically diverse languages as Japanese and English, is the loss of nuance, in which such subtleties as irony become lost, muddled, or created where there was meant to be none.
Hillary Raphael reviews Ryu Murakami‘s Piercing for 3:AM.
The Missing Links
3:AM readers should be familiar with Litro, original fiction for the London Underground: 3:AM editor-in-Chief Andrew Gallix was a featured writer last year. This week’s issue is a special fairy tale issue with Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose (and as a PDF). Much as I like the design of the free sheets, I’d […]
Five questions for Savage Kick magazine
Buzzwords: When did you start Savage Kick and why? Steve Hussy: We had the idea of doing a magazine about 18 months ago. A huge part of the decision was that every magazine and online site was filled with at least 90% shit, and we knew we could do better. To start with, Savage Kick […]
Municipal Chic: Lynsey Hanley
It’s ‘the likes of us’ and ‘them’, or ‘posh people’. It rings very hollow when you hear an apparently working-class character on television slagging someone off for being ‘middle-class’. I never heard reference to the class system in terms of ‘working’ and ‘middle’ until I went to sixth-form college.
Andrew Stevens interviews Estates author Lynsey Hanley for 3:AM.