Ask the Expert: Anti-Tourism
Daniel Kalder is the author of two of my favorite books of the 21st Century: Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist and Strange Telescopes: Following the Apocalypse fr
Lost Territories
I Soul It is well-known that when Lenin died in 1924 his brain was extracted from his skull and subsequently dissected by Soviet scientists who sought to reveal the source of his
The Most Beautiful Illusion: An Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky
FILMMAKER, POET, NOVELIST, comics writer, mime, actor, theater director, soundtrack composer, “psychomagician,” Tarot reader: Alejandro Jodorowsky needs no introduction. In thi
The Six Voyages of Lone Sloane
Back in 1991 I bought a copy of Philippe Druillet’s Nosferatu, a black-and-white one-shot published by Dark Horse in the days when they were still putting out Cheva
Incidents in the night 2
Last year Uncivilized Books published David B.’s Incidents in the Night, a twisting, meta-textual narrative about death, esoteric history, and the pleasures of hunting for o
On Russian Balconies
On a recent visit to Istanbul I stayed in an apartment looking out on the Bosphorus. Every morning I’d get up and see the sun sparkling on the surface of the water as birds circl
Kremlin Kids Gone Wild!
Life is not easy for the offspring of dictators. Look at Gaddafi’s kids, who are either dead, in prison or in exile. Bashar al-Assad would have been an ophthalmologist if his eld
Movie Nights with Stalin
Stalin, like all murderous totalitarian tyrants, was big on secrecy. It’s therefore probably a safe bet to assume that he would not have been best pleased had he learned that one
Review: Limonov by Emmanuel Carrere
A review of "Limonov" by Emmanuel Carrere, a novelized retelling of the controversial Russian author's life.
Review: Final Incal
At the climax of Moebius and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s original Incal series, the protagonist John DiFool encounters God, or somebody very like him: a big, golden, flowing