Children of Fleet Street
Immediately apparent are the missing adverts, replaced with nothing, so one is confronted by the melancholia of the empty page, (or is that no news is good news?) and the crammed efficiency of the more usual broadsheet space with its advertising, life style articles etc is revealed in its sinister complexity.
Heidi James gets inky fingers from The Newpaper, an examination of journalism through art.
The Funnies
[Image: Tintin & Snowy by Charles Burns] R/G and Tintin. And the mighty Paul Gravett on the “Belgian original”: Tintin stares back at millions of men in the mirror every morning. We put a dab of gel in our hair at the front and shape a little quiff to give ourselves an extra bit of […]
31 Theories
Susan Tomaselli tells us that Tom McCarthy’s Remainder was featured on the Irish RTE channel’s arts show ‘The View’ last night (clip here, scroll down): “Says Bisi Adigun, who loved the book, “I would to start by quoting what 3:AM Magazine says… It says, it is ‘a masterpiece waiting to happen – again and again […]
Excerpt: The Human War
I’ve lived a stupid life. My college existence consisted of going to bars and sitting at Denny’s till sunrise. I’ve had several girlfriends for long periods, but I don’t know if I have loved any of them. I said I love you to them, but I probably just said it to get laid.
Read an extract from the forthcoming UK edition of Noah Cicero‘s The Human War.