Ralph Steadman’s grotesquely brilliant illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
George Orwell had difficulty in getting Animal Farm published in the 1940s. His satirical fable about a farm being taken over by a cowardly, power-mad…
Politics Archives: 06/2017
Every review you’ve read of the new Roger Waters album is wrong (except for this one)
Last Friday, June 2, I spent the entire day checking the mail. I’d preordered the new Roger Waters album–his first album of original rock material…
William S. Burroughs’ answer to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’
The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…