J.G. Ballard

Falling Man: David Cronenberg's Vision of Cosmopolis

Best in Show: 'Ghosts in the Machine' at the New Museum

Plus, Wooster Enterprises, and Stan VanDerBeek.

Q&A: Film Director Kevin Kerslake on His Movie Electric Daisy Carnival Experience

In the last 20-plus years, filmmaker Kevin Kerslake has amassed a mind-bogglingly impressive list of music-industry credits, not only shooting videos for Sonic Youth, Prince, Green Day, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones, but also directing the visual treatment of Nirvana's "Come As You Are" and the MTV V ... More >>

Freudian Trip: In Dialogue with David Cronenberg

Seven of the Best from the NY Asian Film Fest

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

J. G. Ballard: 1930-2009

The British author J.G. Ballard, who published more than thirty books of fiction, short stories, and essays over nearly five decades, died yesterday. His pessimistic and prescient meditations on technology and modernity would be hugely influential for everyone from David Cronenberg to Joy Division t ... More >>

Zadie Smith Columbia Syllabus Leaks (Leaks?)

Anyone who's read On Beauty knows that author Zadie Smith's attitude towards academia is ambivalent at best. But this is what passes for a day job in the novel writing world, and so this semester finds Smith up at Columbia, teaching a fiction seminar called "Sense and Sensibility." The syllabus fo ... More >>

No Context: Sam Riley Talks About Control

Just Add Water

Mechanical disaster-movie remake removes old people, inserts expensive fireballs

Foster Wallace Rewrites Mamet in Nerdy, Ingenious Time-Warp Fantasy

36-Hour Party People

Thinking outside the box: First-time filmmaker reinvents sci-fi, tampers with space-time

A Bum Trip Reborn

Blissed Psychedelic Freaks Bequeath Skykissing Guitars to Industrial Autopsy Aesthetes

Unchained Malady

With '28 Days Later,' Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Step Into the Hot Zone

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Escape Claus

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Road Scholar

Techno Grows Up

Suicide Watch

Alan Vega, Multimedia Artist

Gotham Gifts

The Belligerati

I Love Murakami

Nuclear Burnout

A bunch of slugs

City Limits

Beck to the Base

Velvet Crush

Christian Bale

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One