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Empire of the SunThis classic, award-winning novel from J.G. Ballard—now a famous Spielberg film—tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in...Read More
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Huffington Post UK, May 8, 2012
...3 deigned to come knocking. There is something more meaningful afoot. From Joy Division's reverential mining of J. G. Ballard ( The Atrocity Exhibition was a novel before a song) to Mark E. Smith's post-punk band The Fall (named after the...
New York Times, March 28, 2012
...Literary writers can sometimes forget their obligation to entertain. But this month brings a selection of novels and short stories that can hold their own with a thriller, in this case the third installment of Olen Steinhauers brisk Milo Weaver spy...
Psychology Today, March 27, 2012
...of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" From draft of John Updike's "Couples" From draft of J. G. Ballard's "Crash" From draft of John Updike's "Couples" From draft of J. G. Ballard's "Crash" From draft of Dickens' "Great Expectations" From draft...
West Australian, March 27, 2012
...published by local small press 12th Planet. Stylistically different from her other work, Glitter Rose was inspired by J. G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands stories and her own experiences on Stradbroke Island, where she arrived with her husband after spending...
West Australian, March 27, 2012
...published by local small press 12th Planet. Stylistically different from her other work, Glitter Rose was inspired by J. G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands stories and her own experiences on Stradbroke Island, where she arrived with her husband after spending...
New York Times, March 23, 2012
...Nobody ever hated the contemporary world with as much intensity and conviction as J. G. Ballard. In five decades of unforgiving literary production, he drowned it, scorched it, flayed it with whirlwinds, deluged it with Martian sand, even transformed it...
New York Times, March 23, 2012
...Nobody ever hated the contemporary world with as much intensity and conviction as J. G. Ballard. In five decades of unforgiving literary production, he drowned it, scorched it, flayed it with whirlwinds, deluged it with Martian sand, even transformed it...
Filmmaker Magazine, February 27, 2012
...1. Jeffrey: “I’m seeing something that was always hidden.” 2. J. G. Ballard, from Concrete Island, 1974: When he reached the embankment and searched for the message he had scrawled on the white flank of the caisson, he found that all...
The Independent, February 25, 2012
...crushed vehicle alongside those of the late US sculptor, John Chamberlain. Chamberlain's carefully mashed-up automobiles were a J G Ballard take on the American Dream, glossy, dangerous and erotic. Deller's It Is What It Is is what it is, a car destroyed...
Filmmaker Magazine, February 24, 2012
...1. Jeffrey: “I’m seeing something that was always hidden.” 2. J. G. Ballard, from Concrete Island, 1974: When he reached the embankment and searched for the message he had scrawled on the white flank of the caisson, he found that all...
Sheffield Telegraph, February 16, 2012
...Screen, Tuesday). Crash, James Spader, Holly Hunter and Debra Unger in David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of the J G Ballard novel about people who get turned on sexually by car crashes and physical mutilation (Cert 18, Showroom, Cult...
New Statesman, February 16, 2012
...I once asked the late J G Ballard if he'd been offered an honour. He told me he had - a KCBE, or something of that stripe - but when he queried whether he'd...
San Antonio Current, February 15, 2012
...to find a new home it would be in old Mexico. The marriage of nightmare and reason that J. G. Ballard once remarked dominated the 20th century and led to an ever more ambiguous world has also made science fiction writers out of anyone with a Facebook...
Bright Lights Film Journal, February 15, 2012
...Henry Huang's Tony Award-winning play M. Butterfly, and Patrick McGrath's 1991 novel Spider, Cronenberg also adapted J. G. Ballard's cult classic Crash to the screen in 1996. All of these films featured prominent Hollywood actors, from Jeremy Irons (Dead...
