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Underground Man
http://undergroundmangeomatt.blogspot.com/
Mostly book reviews of imaginative literature from genre SF and Fantasy to the Avant-Garde, but also libertarian left/anarchist political and cultural critique, philosophy and cinema, amongst other interesting topics.
- Added on: Dec 7th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: George Matthews
- Listed in: Books Anarchism
- Tags: society science fiction fantasy left wing horror radical
Recent Posts
Book Review: 1974 & 1977 by David Peace
Dark, violent and gritty, words to describe 1974 and 1977, the first two novels in David Peace's The Red Riding Quartet. In all of my years with 'my head in a book' I have never got round to reading anything strictly labeled as crime fiction. I've a...
Book Review: Screening Sex by Linda Williams
Linda Williams is a feminist writer and professor of film studies at the University of California, Berkeley, specialising mainly in the academic study of pornography! I first came across her writings in an anthology called 'Sex Exposed: Sexuality an...
Book Review: The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
Those curious about European ultra-left anti-politics might have stumbled across The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee. The text has been on the net for some time and is now published in English as a pamphlet by Semiotext(e), distribute...
Book Review: Endless Things: A Part of Aegypt by John Crowley
Endless Things is the fourth and final part of John Crowley's Aegypt sequence. I wrote in my review of Daemonomania (the third novel in the sequence) that a short review can never do justice to this breathtakingly complex series of novels. At one le...
Dystopia Now: The Only Hope is Resistance From Below
I began Underground Man last year when the banking system was in meltdown. Since then Neoliberalism and market orthodoxy have emerged unscathed from its most serious crisis since the Wall Street Crash, arguably strengthened. Because of the recession ...
Book Review: The User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews by J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard also wrote reviews and articles for newspapers and magazines and the User's Guide to the Millennium is a varied collection of these non-fiction works from the 60's up the mid 90's. They display J.G's wide interests, covering everything ...
