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Judas Was A Patsy: Giles Walker Interviewed

Daniel Fraser talks to The Mutoid Waste Co.'s Giles Walker about religious symbolism, confronting death with a sense of humour, and why rejected robots and bird skulls make for great art

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Cult Of Memory: Simon Critchley Interviewed

Daniel Fraser speaks to Simon Critchley about the architecture of memory and a move toward its obliteration, the culture of stigma surrounding death in our current civilisation (as well as his distaste for that term) and his recent genre-bending philosophical treatise-cum-novel Memory Theatre
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Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Lars Iyer Interviewed

Daniel Fraser speaks to Lars Iyer, author of the Spurious trilogy (encompassing Spurious, Dogma and Exodus), about what makes the philosopher such an attractive subject for his work, a secret desire for lightness and the flatness of characters in his new novel, Wittgenstein Jr
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The Presence Of A True Death: Karl Knausgaard’s Boyhood Island

Daniel Fraser makes his way through banality, bullfighting and Anders Breivik in Boyhood Island, the third instalment of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard's contentious My Struggle
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Imre Kertész: Music, Silence, Automation

Coinciding with the release of his first (and apparently only) memoir, Dossier K, earlier this year Daniel Fraser considers the writing and the life of Hungarian Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész

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B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

In a second piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the celebrated author's birth - and fortieth of his death - Daniel Fraser considers the relationship between writer and reader and the tyranny of reason in Johnson's work
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: Between Meaning and Nothingness

Daniel Fraser gets to grips with the banal, the bleak and the beautiful in the second instalment of the Norwegian writer's intense literary memoir

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