Iain Sinclair

Jul 12, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon |Iain Sinclair

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Like nearly all societies, nations of Buddhists sometimes go to war. Yet the first precept of the religion calls on its adherents to avoid killing. Religion scholar Iain Sinclair examines this apparent paradox by looking at Sanskrit texts from the Vajrayāna, or tantric, tradition written in India between the sixth and twelfth centuries.

May 3, 2024 | theartsdesk.com | Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a writer, film-maker, and psychogeographer extraordinaire. He began his career in the poetic avant-garde of the Sixties and Seventies, alongisde the likes of Ed Dorn and J. H. Prynne, but his work resists easy categorisation at every turn. Reality shudders against and into its incarnation as fiction; documentary is riddled with the imagination’s brilliant glare; genre-bounds are ruinously questioned.

Apr 27, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Iain Sinclair

How is it that a group photograph, one of a series taken in a Soho seafood restaurant by the struggling photographer John Deakin in March 1963 — and immediately spiked by the commissioner of the society magazine Queen — emerged 60 years later, blown up to wall-size for an exhibition in the Gagosian gallery? The group in question was made up of the main painters in a loose association soon to be promoted as the “School of London”, and they were dining at Wheeler’s restaurant.

Dec 5, 2023 | forbiddenplanet.com | Michael Moorcock |Maxim Jakubowski |Iain Sinclair |Lavie Tidhar

Michael Moorcock returns to Forbidden Planet TV to chat with Andrew Sumner and heap praise on Titan Comics' recent archive editions of his epic Moorcock’s Multiversegraphic novel series (mainly illustrated by the mighty Walter Simonson) and Titan Books' J.G.Ballard-inspired anthology collection REPORTS FROM THE DEEP END (featuring Mike's Jerry Cornelius short story, THE MISSISSIPPI VARIANT).

Jul 17, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Iain Sinclair |Joseph Fahim |Rachel Pronger

A story of social climbing and a passionate affair in 1950s Yorkshire, Room at the Top is an Oscar-winning landmark of British film. How have its locations changed since? 17 July 2023By Adam ScovellWith its working-class hero, regional accents and use of northern English locations, Room at the Top (1958) became an early flagship film in the British New Wave that caused a step-change for British cinema in the late 1950s and early 60s.