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Please join us at 1 Pied Bull Yard on Wednesday 5 September at 6–8 pm for a drink to celebrate the display of Alison Turnbull’s  Japanese Paintings. The paintings are being displayed in the Bury Place windows of Rodić Davidson  Architects throughout  the summer. Alison will be joined by Tony White, author of the critically acclaimed, Oulipo-inspired detective novel  The Fountain in the Forest  (Faber and Faber). At 7pm Tony will read an extract from the short story he contributed to Alison Turnbull’s artist’s book  Spring Snow – A Translation  (Book Works). The London Review Bookshop next-door will be open

2018 Festival Programme Sat 22nd September Sun 23rd September Philosophers appearing who are part of the 3:AM Magazine’s End Times series: Markus Gabriel  who broods on why the world doesn’t exist and never stops wondering about Kant, existence, pluralism, fields of sense, Huw Price, about why he isn’t po-mo, nor a Meinongian, about why unicorns exist, about why he’s a realist, about dissolving the hard problem, about why naturalism and physicalism are wrong, about Schelling and post-Kantian idealism, about Badiou and Meillassouz, Heidegger, about resisting skepticism, about negative philosophy, mythology, madness, laughter and the need for illusions in metaphysics, and about

Deborah Levy and Olivia Laing in conversation. * Olivia Laing and Ali Smith in conversation. * David Hayden on the women who influenced his writing. * On Eugene Thacker‘s Infinite Resignation. * For Saul Leiter, “simply looking at the world was enough”. * Lauren Elkin on the new motherhood books. * How auto is autofiction? * Amy Liptrot on her pregnancy: “Thinking can be overwhelming – this unexpected baby changes everything and the mysteries of life are happening inside my body – and I just need to be a wild beast, a physical being using my senses”. * The strange

  Throbbing Gristle announce the second phase of their ongoing reissues with Mute. 14 September 2018 will see remastered editions of Journey Through a Body (on silver vinyl and CD) and Mission of Dead Souls (on white vinyl and CD) available, while Heathen Earth will be re-released on blue vinyl and as a 2CD set. The releases follow the 40th anniversary release of The Second Annual Report, as well as new editions of 20 Jazz Funk Greats and The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide to Throbbing Gristle. JOURNEY THROUGH A BODY (1982, Industrial Records), widely referred to as Throbbing

MORBID ANATOMY PRESENTS: We are very excited to announce a special taxidermy tour this September with opportunities to view rarely seen Walter Potter tableaux as well as private collections, historic mansions and 19th century museums–front and back stage. The tour will be organized and led by Dr Pat Morris, taxidermy historian and foremost collector of the work of eccentric Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter. We will also pay several visits to Dr Morris’ home, where we will see rarely seen Walter Potter pieces including one of his most famous tableaux, The Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1861) (above and bottom

Doclisboa’18 Presents its Retrospective and Focus: Luis Ospina and Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World At 10:30pm, on July 27th,  Doclisboa – International Film Festival  will present a preview of its 2018 retrospective and special focus sections, through an open-air screening at the Cinemateca Portuguesa – one of the venues of the festival. A  double bill  of  The Vampires of Poverty  (Colombia, 1978, Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo, 27 min) and  A Flood in Baath Country  (France, Syria, 2003, Omar Amiralay, 48 min) will provide a first exploration of these programmes, in anticipation of October’s festival. Retrospective –

Jack is back — and this time, the blood is red. “My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century.” — Warren Ellis, Entertainment Weekly Experience FROM HELL as never before: fully restored and in color for the first time! Five unsolved murders. Two of the greatest creators in the history of comics. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the brink of the twentieth century, and one bloody-minded Ripper ushering London into the modern age of terror. The award-winning

Here’s a picture (courtesy of Andrew Stevens) of Subway Sect (1980 Club Left line-up) live in London today. Lest we forget, the band took part in 3:AM Magazine‘s first event, which took place at the Horse Hospital on 26 July 2003 between 6 and 11.30 pm. There were readings and talks by Steve Aylett, Nicholas Blincoe, Billy Childish, Kerri Sharp, Mitzi Szereto, Matt Thorne, Paul Tickell, Tommy Udo, Marina Warner and the late Steven Wells, plus performances by Billy Childish, Kazuko Hohki, Subway Sect and Richard Strange.

  Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), interviewed here at 3:AM as part of the End Times series, was attacked by a racist and then the Bonn police during a recent visit to give a lecture. The anti-semitic attack in Bonn reminds us of the depressing and worrying fact that that anti-Semitism is alive and well. Courtesy of Leiter Reports, Yitzhak’s letter to a friend outlines the nasty events. ‘In the past two days I have been approached by various German news media requesting my description of the events that took place at the Bonner Hofgarten on July 11th. I cannot answer

Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father, the debut short fiction collection by 3:AM Magazine co-editor-in-chief Tristan Foster, is forthcoming from Melbourne-based publisher Transmission Press. From the publisher: Eels, snakes, artists, photos, writers, sprinters, dead men, thieves, possums, sphinxes, whales, fathers, mothers, children, neighbours, lovers, churches, rivers, oceans, devils, heroes, stones, fur, fish, skin, blood. Astrologers and mandarins. Delhi and Parramatta, Byzantium and Cappadocia. The texts in this collection hunt down the lost and the dead, tracing their paths from small apartments in the suburbs of Sydney to Malpensa Airport in Milan, bearing witness to what they