Borges on the task of art. * The birth of the arts. * The history of information overload. * “I love mankind… It’s people I can’t stand” (Linus Van Pelt). * Nabokov’s unpublished love letters. * Ian Fleming’s radio interview with Raymond Chandler. * Species of Spaces, a Perec-inspired exhibition. * Oulipians. * A documentary on the Chelsea Hotel (1981). * Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson RIP. Throbbing Gristle statement. Guardian obit. More here, here, here, here, and here. * Mark E Smith, Tony Wilson, Jon King (Gang of Four) and Stewart Home on Situationism (1996). * Salman Rushdie‘s favourite fantasy novels. * An extract from Mick Middles‘ punk diary. * A 1988 interview with Joe Strummer. * French and Belgian comics. * Animated films for grown-ups. * Mad Men: The Illustrated World. * Lovecraftian Tintin adventures. * Simon Critchley: no future! * Is Graham Greene the father of film noir? * Wild Hackney. * Joe Dunthorne on Hackney‘s Ministry of Stories. * Literary boozing. * The Specials announce 2011 tour. * Back to 1981. * Maggie‘s long goodbye. * Mapping the human brain. * Okay rules OK. * Sexist ads of yesteryear (see pic above). * Alan Bennett: “Yes, dirty old man. I don’t mind that. No. Quite happy with that”. * The rise of The Shard. * Flash Projects: nudes from the 50s to the 70s, including the works of Jean Clemmer. * Spanking as art (Alva Bernardine). * Rinko Kawauchi‘s photography. * An interview with photographer Antoine D’Agata. * The Economist on the beauty premium. * Brigitte Bardot as existentialist icon. * The art of Zelda Fitzgerald. * A 1975 documentary about David Bowie. * 70s Californian punk videos. * The Screamers‘ “122 Hours of Fear”. * An interview with Factory Records designer Peter Saville. More here. * Beckett‘s radio plays. * Sarah Angliss. * John Lydon postpones new PiL album following Ari Up‘s death. * 3:AMer Max Dunbar‘s fiction. * Former 3:AM editor Tao Lin is Dude of the Day. * Michel Houellebecq discovers Somerset Maugham. * On Simon Van Booy. * Fuck 1968. * The riot girls. * Nina Power gets kettled. * The cyber radicals. * The revolution will not be tweeted. * Guardian student media awards. * The New York Times‘s 100 notable books of 2010. * Will Self‘s book of the year. * The genius of Huckleberry Finn. * On Blackheath Books. * Patti Smith interviewed by John Robb (audio). * One-man demo at Tate Modern. * How Stieg Larsson set out to defy the conventions of the crime novel. * Sam Jordison on Tangier‘s literary history. * The creators of Doctor Who. * Jean Hannah Edelstein (video). * Roberto Bolaño on Andr és Neuman. * Zoe Howe on The Fall. * Lydia Davis on Madame Bovary. * Lydia Davis‘s “Kafka Cooks Dinner” (short story). * James Joyce‘s burnt kidney recipe. * The BBC wants your mod stories from the 60s. * Fritz Lang‘s Metropolis (1927) remastered. * Cage, Cunningham and constructed anarchy. * On founts, fonts and typefaces. * Filming one’s own death: Herv é Guibert. * John Waters. * A new look for A Piece of Monologue. * Anthony Burgess and Malthusianism. * The 10 best-dressed authors. * Why Murdoch’s The Daily is doomed. * Simon Reynolds on music for children, by children.
