#BeACritic: Tim Marlow Public Lecture & Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s #BeACritic competition — and news that our lead critic will give a (free) public lecture in May… We’ve had a very difficult decision...
“Writers are just people, they’re not unicorns”: An Evening With James Rice
Ahead of the Writing on the Wall launch tonight, Jack Roe meets their Pulp Idol 2010 winner and author James Rice: discussing his dark debut novel Alice and the Fly, new found success...
We’re Partnering Up With LIV-BCN Festival 2015 — And It’s Going To Be Awesome
We are thrilled to officially announce our partnership with arts festival LIV-BCN, which will this year include cult Liverpool artists Marnie (Ladytron) and Clinic, celebrated Catalonian illustrator Mariadiamantes, and the exquisite multi-award winning...
“Public punishment is too brutal” — The Big Interview: Jon Ronson (Part Two)
In Part Two of our Big Interview, bestselling author Jon Ronson expands upon our growing desire for public punishment, shares how he tries to connect with his interviewees, and reveals what it’s like to have...
“A Particular Kind Of Englishness”: Simon Armitage — Reviewed
Jennifer Tsai spends an evening with one of Britain’s foremost poets and enjoys deadpan delivery, romantic insecurity and a homage to the Pennine Watershed… In the intimate setting of the Everyman Theatre recently, I heard Simon...
Chemical Recall: Or, What Is Memory Without Photography?
At the Walker’s latest exhibition, C. James Fagan ponders how images serve as a stimulus for individual recollections of memory and history, and asks: are photography and film actually replacing our real memories? One of...
On Being Out Of Place: The Artwork Of Rebecca Chesney
As part of our new publishing collaboration with In Certain Places, here art historian Rosemary Shirley discusses the concept of nature and ‘wildness’ — an interest she shares with artist Rebecca Chesney… According...
“I was grappling with something that was truly horrifying” — The Big Interview: Jon Ronson (Part One)
He’s investigated psychopaths, extremists, and now the rise of public shaming online. Here, critically acclaimed journalist Jon Ronson speaks to us at length about his new book, how he feels about shaming a...
Strange Bedfellows: Carrington And Wilkes Reviewed
Heather Garner ventures into Tate Liverpool’s transformed fourth floor and finds a world of folklore and monsters of an equally engrossing and disturbing nature… At first viewing, Leonora Carrington and Cathy Wilkes appear to be...