torpedo the ark

CRA5 H26 (SA/2026)   'I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of the car crash ...'  [1]     I.    How odd that after reading...

  Mark Fisher:  k-punk   (Repeater Books, 2018) [a]   I started the blog because it seemed like a space in which to maintain  a kind of disc...

Stephen Alexander and Leonard Zelig  (SA/2026)     I.    Zelig  (1983) may not be my favourite Woody Allen movie, but it's the one that ...

Illustration by Efrat Dahan behance.net     I.    An academic journal [1] has rejected the following short essay:     On D. H. Lawrence'...

Costas Varotsos:  Dromeas  (1994) Glass and iron sculpture (Athens, Greece)  Photo: Stephen Alexander (2006)       I.    Recently, a cutting...

One of the Seven Noses of Soho by Rick Buckley (1997) (Meard Street, London W1) Photo by Stephen Alexander (Feb 2026)     I.    Connecting W...

Psychodramatists:  Stephen Alexander and Simon Solomon     I.    I have been following the recent (often acrimonious) exchange between Steph...

Simonstein  (SA/2026)   It was an unholy and tempestuous winter's night when I, Victor Frankenstein, completed my most singular transgre...

Image by Zanda Rice (2024) collider.com      I.    Nobody likes to go to the dentist, not even a poet.    However, several poets have attemp...

I Recognise the Irony, But I Don't Really Get It ... (SA/2025)      I.   I recently went to a talk on the  slop-ification of literature ...