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In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction
Taken from the newly released Extreme Metaphors, collecting interviews with J.G. Ballard over his forty-eight year career, British author Toby Litt introduces an extract from his 2006 interview with the 'Seer of Shepperton' on fascism and his then-new novel Kingdom Come