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BPC Publishers has so far brought out 2 non-fiction books: Psychedelic Tricksters (2020) and L*D Underground (2022)

11/10/2024

Memories of Musical Subversion

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23/08/2024

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David Black is a freelance writer and reporter, specializing in the analysis of covert action by the secret services. He has contributed to Rolling Stone and...

Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks, now back in print after 90 years, is a forgotten ‘modernist’ classic. Breaking the mold o...
19/04/2024

Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks, now back in print after 90 years, is a forgotten ‘modernist’ classic. Breaking the mold of the ‘working class novel’ (such as Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole, published in 1933), Hilton’s narrative cracks along without any dialogue between characters and with no character development apart from the protagonist’s own and his circumstances. As George Orwell put it, the book ‘deals with its subject from the inside, and consequently it gives one, instead of a catalogue of facts relating to poverty, a vivid notion of what it feels like to be poor.’

Review: Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks In a previous post about the publication of the new Penguin edition of Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton, I ran George Orwell’s Adelphi review in 1935, which described it as ‘witty and unusual’ presentation of ‘a genuinely working-class outlook… exceedi...

31/03/2024

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“Whether art is abolished, perishes, or despairingly hangs on, it is not mandated that the content of past art perish. I...
10/01/2024

“Whether art is abolished, perishes, or despairingly hangs on, it is not mandated that the content of past art perish. It could survive art in a society that had freed itself of the barbarism of its culture.” Theodor Adorno

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