Part-way through completing a translation of Gregor Hens’ Nicotine, our resident translation columnist Jen Calleja finds herself asking questions about authenticity and exactitude and whether or not translation is creation. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)
Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
Extreme Metaphors having been in the public sphere for just over a week, the book's editor and Ballard aficionado Simon Sellars discusses the relevance of the collection and its subject to contemporary culture with Quietus literary editor Karl Smith
Holger Czukay, co-founder of Can, student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and maker of great music, has died. In this interview, originally published on tQ in 2014 to mark 40 years since the release of Canaxis 5, he spoke to Bobby Barry about Stockhausen, John Lydon and learning to fly.
As they announce their compact and killer new album In Blood and share first track 'My Name In Blood' exclusively with The Quietus, Hey Colossus speak to Bernie Brooks about folklore, community, and what it means to be in a band for 20 years