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Dreams of the Decades

Liz Jobey: Bill Brandt, 8 July 2004

Bill Brandt: A Life 
by Paul Delany.
Cape, 336 pp., £35, March 2004, 0 224 05280 2
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Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective 
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... would marry in 1950), and another female figure, whom Delany misidentifies as ‘the actress Judy Campbell’, sitting in Graves’s house in Devon. ‘It seems more than likely,’ Delany writes, ‘that Brandt was using this scene to express feelings about his own domestic triangle, in which he adored Marjorie while Eva adored him.’ (The third figure ...

If I Turn and Run

Iain Sinclair: In Hoxton, 1 June 2000

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by Bill Drummond.
Little, Brown, 361 pp., £12.99, March 2000, 0 316 85385 2
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Crucify Me Again 
by Mark Manning.
Codex, 190 pp., £8.95, May 2000, 0 18 995814 6
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... to the steel-town of Corby in the East Midlands; art school and theatre design (for Ken Campbell) in Liverpool; seizure and proper exploitation of the post-Punk pop industry (by way of certain SF/paranoid notions of interstellar ley-lines connecting Iceland, Liverpool and New Guinea); chaos theory management (with Echo and the Bunnymen), followed by ...

Chasing Steel

Ian Jack: Scotland’s Ferry Fiasco, 22 September 2022

... Lord Strathcona, a former Tory minister, consistently agitated for more steamer calls. John Lorne Campbell, described by Andrew Clark as ‘the ever-whining proprietor of Canna’, more often remembered as a historian and folklorist, was outraged when MacBrayne’s substituted a smaller boat on the service to the Small Isles. Mallaig, the mainland port, was ...

My Year of Reading Lemmishly

Jonathan Lethem, 10 February 2022

... his fanciful plots. Standardised in the mid-century US, in Astounding magazine, edited by John W. Campbell, Hard SF advertises consumer goods like personal robots and flying cars. It valorises space travel that culminates in successful (if difficult) contact with the alien life assumed to be strewn throughout the galaxies, and glows with a self-ratifying ...

Ghosting

Andrew O’Hagan: Julian Assange, 6 March 2014

... onto the back foot over ‘redactions’. The issue was this: on 28 July 2010, Major General Campbell, a US commander in Afghanistan, said that ‘any time there’s any sort of leak of classified material, it has the potential to harm the military folks that are working out here every day.’ The notion got under the skin of many people, including many ...

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