GENERAL / EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE / ART HISTORY (D H LAVEN)

(Publishing dates refer to month and year)

 
(ARTICLES BY GENERAL EDITOR. GEORGY RIECKE:)


TWO MEN: TRISTAN SARD AND ROBERT SEVRE - by Georgy Riecke

Meditations on the biography of England's best 'intellectual comedian' Tristan Sard and on
the French novelist Robert Sevré's 'mistaken rant' at a German literary awards ceremony in 1970
(Published 05/08)



SPEYER IN SPRING - A recollection by Georgy Riecke

Nature-triggered thoughts regarding the 'treacle of culture' and a
conversation shared with Johannes Speyer on a spring morning in 1979
(Published  04/08)



AT THE COURT OF SIR FRANCIS NEEDLESPLEEN - by Georgy Riecke

An examination of 'The Needlespleen Chronicles' - a set of absurd drawings dating
from the late eighteenth century, originals of which are owned by Georgy Riecke
and esteemed art historian D H Laven. Includes the story of the 'Frustrated Wasp'.
(Published 01/08)



YEVGENY NONIK: AN APPRAISAL - By Georgy Riecke

An exploration of the life and works of Russian poet
Yevgeny Nonik, following his untimely death
(Published 11/07)


GEORGY RIECKE'S HEROES OF ACTIVE READING :  Part One / Part Two

A celebration of Active Reading in all its forms - in two parts.
(Published 06 /07)


THE WEB IS A WEB IS A WEB and WHY I NOT NECESSARILY AS GREAT A COWARD
AS SOME PEOPLE THINK I AM  (Essay by general editor Georgy Riecke)

An exploration of the internet and its uses -  and a response to
the Eva Holubk 'Crippled Bee' controversy (see below)
(Published 07/07)


'NOT ANOTHER BOOK ON THE COLD WAR' - ESSAYS BY BERNARD RANDALL JNR
(REVIEWED BY GEORGY RIECKE)

A review of controversial historian Bernard Randall Jnr's latest study, focusing
on his coverage of the New Jersey 1974 Poetry Competition Scandal
(Published 02/07)




A review of Marsden's study of the increasingly popular Bulgarian
Farm Poets, an excerpt of which can be found below
(Published 01/06)



UNDER UNDERNEATH THE BUNKER

Georgy Riecke explains his motivation to create Underneath the Bunker,
and muses over its naming.
(Published 09/05)




(ARTICLES BY OTHERS:)


RAWLS AND DE VILLEON: THE TOUGH TRUTH - by T E Heeman

A reflection on Thomas Rawl's biography of Jerome de Villeon. Was there a
conspiracy to deny some of the prolific Dutch writer's less kindly habits?
(Published 10/07)



"TO HIS MISTRESS' SISTERS": GEORGE FORTHWITH-JAMES - A LIFE (A Review by Heidi Kohlenberg)

A review of Stephen Harragher's biography of George Forthwith-James, writer of limp Victorian morality tales,
but a far greater letter writer,  once penning forty-eight in one  evening, all in a different style, to different people
(Published 10/07)



HECTOR SPINKËL: ROUND TWO (In which Lasse Huwam predicts the plotline of the Spinkël biopic)

Lasse Huwam reflects on the repurcussions of a growing obsession with the life and ideas
of Hector Spinkel, a man of 'beautifully vague potential', who claimed to see colours no one
could see and believed that the mysteries of life are explained under our eyelids.
(Published 07/07)



TALES OF THEFT AND COWARDICE FROM THE CRIPPLED BEE (Anon)

A somewhat scurrilous account of the Eva Holubk book theft controversy. May contain untruths.
(Published  06/07)



THE END, THE END, THE END (of  Lucas de Boer) - By Carl Stensson

A reflection on the strange career of Lucas de Boer, who may or may not have actually died this time.
(Published  03/07)



TWO REVIEWS: KVISVIK'S 'HAPPINESS IS A WORN NOTION'
AND 'THE GREAT CAT MOONSHINE' BY MARTIN BRÜNT - review by Heidi Kohlenberg

A review of two novels, containing an aside on contemporary Norwegian literature. 
(Published 02/07)



THE DE ROQUET ROOMS: THREE CRITICAL APPROACHES

An exclusive set of contrasting studies on the famous de Roquet rooms,
containing comments on architectural novels
(Published  01/07)



AN EXCERPT FROM J T MARSDEN'S BOOK ABOUT
THE BULGARIAN FARM POETS MOVEMENT

An excerpt from the introduction
(Published  09/06)



THE PATHENIKOLIDES AFFAIR: (by Jean Massonet)     Part One     Part Two       Part Three

Reports from the court case, where it was claimed that Alexis Pathenikolides' novel 'The Twisted
Olive Tree' was a pastiche of other artist's works. Massonet follows the case from its strange
beginning to its climatic close
(Published  06/06)



INVITATION TO AN EXECUTION: A NOTE ON JON GVENNERSON (anon)

A rant on the subject of a sub-Cyclopian visionary.
(Published 10/05)




MATTHEW TAYLOR-ROSNIK INTERVIEWS: THORNTON FARLAND

An interview with the Scottish composer, before the premiere of his 'British Symphony'; a
piece of orchestral music inspired by the different accents of British people
(Published  01/07)



MATTHEW TAYLOR-ROSNIK INTERVIEWS:  PAULO ZILOTTI

An interview with the Italian composer, after the premiere of his opera based on
Yoy Ijit's novel 'My Grandmother's Pudding'.
(Published  06)

(ART HISTORY, BY D H LAVEN:)


THE  DEATH SHEDS OF COLNEY RISE

(Published  03/08)


LAETITIA BLAUMAN

(Published 01/08)


'OPENING NEW DOORS?' - ART AND THE WEST MELBOURNE SPORTS CENTRE

(Published  01/07)


HENRY A HUNT - WELL FORGOTTEN AND YET OVERLOOKED

(Published 06)


THE CLOVEN CONSPIRACY - SIR ANTHONY TOSH AND THE HEREFORD HERESY

(Published 05/06)


'NURTURED FROM PAIN': THE BRUISED BEAUTY OF MARIA VON UPPELHART

(Published  06)


'LIGHTS OUT':  THE UNFORTUNATE ART OF LUIS REÇAGIS

(Published 06)


'LEAVE US ALONE!' THE REMARKABLE CASE OF THE TOMBS AT KHUM TASH

(Published 12/05)


'WORM TENSIONS: THE FORGOTTEN ART OF EUGENE MATENDRE

(Published 05)




(PHOTOGRAPHY IN FOCUS, by  Lucia Noisenbach):



PHOTOGRAPHY IN FOCUS:   JAN MAARSVELD'S 'THE LAST JUDGEMENT'




PHOTOGRAPHY IN FOCUS: THE COPPER FROG CUP (LIVE FROM LUXEMBOURG)

JEAN-PIERRE SERTIN - p.52

A free pdf file of Jean-Pierre Sertin's experimental novel
(published 09/07)



EVA HOLUBK

A collection of work by the Georgian poet
(published 01/07)



YEVGENY NONIK

The first of several exclusive excerpts from Nonik's second novel 'subtle carnivores'
(published

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