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RS Sherriffs’ Rubáiyát

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Published: March 25, 2026 16:30

You can’t really say there are always more Rubáiyáts—the Fitzgerald translation isn’t as popular today as it was a century ago—but there are many illustrated editions even though the poem makes for a slim volume when not bulked out by variant translations.…

Hokusai’s Horses

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Published: March 23, 2026 16:30

Shogi Chess Board. I ought to have posted this several weeks ago for the advent of the Year of the Horse. Umazukushi is a series of wood-block prints by Katsushika Hokusai created to celebrate another Year of the Horse, 1822. Umazukushi (also Uma-zukushi)…

Weekend links 822

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Published: March 21, 2026 19:00

Untitled (2013) by Fred Tomaselli. • The latest book from A Year In The Country is Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands of British Analogue Television 1968–1995, an exploration of “a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and…

Locked Groove

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Published: March 18, 2026 16:30

It’s been a while since Scotto Moore’s newsletter turned up any of the abstract animated visuals I enjoy. Locked Groove by Emanuele Kabu fits the bill perfectly, an exercise in vibrant random symmetry which bears the subtitle “A hypnotic audiovisual…

Antonio Rubino’s Versi e Disegni

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Published: March 16, 2026 16:30

I didn’t know anything about Italian artist Antonio Rubino (1880–1964) until I went searching for information about this book’s creator. Wikipedia describes Rubino as an illustrator, cartoonist, animation director, screenwriter, playwright, author and poet…

Weekend links 821

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Published: March 14, 2026 19:00

The first UK paperback edition, 1976. Cover art by David Bowie’s illustrator friend George Underwood. • At the BFI: “Humanity, lost and found”. The original Sight and Sound review by Tom Milne of The Man Who Fell to Earth which was released 50 years ago…

Home of the Brave

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Published: March 11, 2026 16:30

A Japanese poster. Home of the Brave is a Laurie Anderson concert film from 1986 that more people might know about if it hadn’t been out of circulation for the past thirty years. The reason for the unavailability remains a mystery; Anderson announced a DVD…

Chess players

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Published: March 9, 2026 16:30

Chess Problem 25 (13th century), from El Libro de los Juegos. Chess-playing in art. Some of it, anyway. I hadn’t realised until I went searching for examples how many paintings there are of people playing chess. The prompt for this was my current reading,…

Weekend links 820

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Published: March 7, 2026 19:00

Lust, from the Seven Deadly Sins (circa 1550–55) by Léon Davent, after Luca Penni. • At Dennis Cooper’s: Bill Hsu presents…High Anxiety: tense, dark films from 2010–2019 (for fans of Robert Aickman and Brian Evenson) (restored). • New music: Ever No Way by…

Reversible men and Lipský’s Happy End

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Published: March 4, 2026 16:30

A paperback ravaged by the passage of time. Art by Ray Ginghofer. Time of Passage, a piece of short fiction by JG Ballard, received its first publication in Science Fantasy magazine in February, 1964. The piece was subsequently collected in two paperbacks,…

Zones on wheels

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Published: March 2, 2026 16:30

Zones (1983). My thanks to Nigel Day for sending me the following photos of the rear end of a Lambretta scooter that he was recently asked to decorate with art based on my cover for Zones by Hawkwind. He’s done a marvellous job, and even improved a little…

Weekend links 819

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Published: February 28, 2026 19:00

Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992), poster art by Noriyoshi Ohrai. • At Wormwoodiana: Douglas A. Anderson on the first English translation of The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, a multi-author serial that formed the basis for Ishirō Honda’s film about the giant moth.…