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Verfreundungseffekt: On Translating Gregor Hens’ Nicotine
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)
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Out-selfing Will Self: An Interview With Austin Collings
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
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The Velvet Underground of English Letters: Simon Sellars Discusses J.G. Ballard
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
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OUTLANDS: Matana Roberts And Kelly Jayne Jones Interviewed
The American saxophonist and the British sound artist are collaborating on a series of live shows programmed by the national experimental touring network OUTLANDS, which is currently travelling across the UK. Claire Sawers speaks to the duo about their work together
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Neither Reality Nor Memory: Aida Amoako On Black Artists’ Use Of Found Materials
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
