books by Iain Sinclair

books by Iain Sinclair

books:

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

British Film Institute, 1999

A brilliant essay on the origins of the movie
As a fan of Ballard I am definitely not a fan of Cronenberg, whom I find superficial, sensational and laddish in the extreme. The movie extracted the least interesting elements of the book and turned them into a kind of techno-porn which I associated with ...

Rodinsky's Room

Rachel Lichtenstein, Iain Sinclair

Granta Books, 2000

A misunderstood (and misread) classic
I just finished teaching *Rodinsky's Room* and was amazed to see the variety of misreadings posted here as reviews. Among the many contemporary works of historical recovery or revision, *Rodinsky* stands out because of its alternating -- and often warring -- authors, ...

Slow Chocolate Autopsy
Iain Sinclair

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1998

Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time. He is present to witness dark deeds from Deptford at the time of Marlowe's death and in the East Endduring the sixties watching the murder of Jack th Hat McVitie. Bizarre and phantasmagoric, the book draws on images of the city from the Rennaissance to the ...

London: City of Disappearances
Iain Sinclair

Penguin Global, 2008

'A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing' - "Guardian". Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city. 'Exhilarating, truly wonderful, a cavalcade of eloquent writing. London ...

Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London

Iain Sinclair

Granta Books, 1998

Outstanding investigator of modern London mythology
Angela Carter, M.John Harrison, Peter Ackroyd, Michael Moorcock -- and Iain Sinclair. All of them have made it their business to investigate the myths and apocrypha which they believe are the psychic structure of London. Whether it's Carter's Wise ...

London Orbital

Iain Sinclair

Penguin Books Ltd, 2003

Carmageddon?
LONDON ORBITAL is more than just a book. It's a world model. Circumferential roads permit regional traffic flow around cities while reducing inner clog, a worldwide effort beyond London's M25--other cities, other orbitals: Paris' Peripherique, Washington's Beltway. ...

A Book of Two Halves: Football Short Stories

Phoenix, 2001

Awesome Footie Stories
Awesome collection of 25 short stories and essays about soccer. My favorites were Stephen Baxter's "Clods," Tim Pears' "Ebony International" Nicholas Lezards' "The Beautiful Game," Steve Grant's "Casuals," Geoff Nicholson's "The Winning Side," Mark Morris's "The ...

Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture
Brian Dillon, Jane Rendell, ...

Hayward Publishing, 2008

Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture marks the fortieth anniversary of London's Hayward gallery--itself an architectural icon, and one of the few remaining examples of the 1960s Brutalist style. The exhibition brings together the work of artists--including Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Beutler, Los Carpinteros, Gelitin, Mike Nelson, Ernesto ...

Lights Out for the Territory
Iain Sinclair

Granta Books, 1998

'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' - Peter Ackroyd, "The Times". Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid ...

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

Iain Sinclair

Granta Books, 2001

Dirty and dangerous
Iain Sinclair knows the mythical paths of London like no-one else. In poetic often painfully intense prose, he conjures up the half-dead spirits that stalk the streets of this seedy town. The landscape is dominated by dodgy second-hand book dealers skulking in the ...

Liquid City

Iain Sinclair, Marc [photographer] Atkins

Reaktion Books, 1999

The London only a Londoner can know
This book told me more about London and Londoners than a million travel books or books about the legends and myths of London. Sinclair and Atkins are interested in the scenery and people that nobody ever notices. The spaces between highways, for instance, and what ...

Downriver (or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales (Or, the Vessels of Wrath : a Narrative in ...

Iain Sinclair

Random House, 1993

A mind-blowingly original novel from a master
Iain Sinclair is one of the masters of modern English prose, and he deserves to be much better known outside of Britain. If a writer's visibility were proportional to his sheer talent, Sinclair would have a profile as high as Martin Amis or Salman Rushdie, two other ...

White Chappell, Trazos Rojos / White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (Spanish Edition)
Iain Sinclair

Sudamericana, 2005

Radon Daughters: A Voyage, Between Art and Terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the Limestone Pavements ...
Iain Sinclair

Granta Books, 2002

Todd Sileen, a rage-driven cripple ekes out a living in a wasted East London borough. This is a comic and alarming epic about a city and a society shredded by random violence and uncontrollable compulsions.

Stephen Gill: Archaeology in Reverse

Nobody, 2007

Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, "closure." There is always flow, momentum, the sense of a man passing through a place that delights him. A sense of stepping down, ...