Iain Sinclair

In Pariah Genius, literary giant Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin, whose chronicles of Soho life and the world of Francis Bacon and his friends have so influenced our perception of that generation's work. In this bold fictionalisation, Sinclair enters the underworld of Deakin's life and imagination, pursuing his subject across continents, in dive bars, and...

What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary of an ill-fated colonial expedition by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. Victorian Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today's ecotourists, coffee plantations with cocaine territories, and the charms of family history are...

David Cronenberg's "Crash" (1996) attracted controversy when it was first screened in London, and remain banned in 1998 by at least one borough council. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes, only for some members of the jury to dis-associate themselves from it. And yet it is a controlled, formal film, unsensational; more analytic than titilating. It is...

A splendid - and necessary - publication...a great resourceIain Sinclair Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps is the first comprehensive publication of Booth's landmark survey of life in late-19th-century London, all within a single volume. In this groundbreaking social and economic survey, Booth discovered that 35 percent of Londoners were living in abject poverty. His team of social investigators interviewed Londoners...