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Jeremy Thomas obituary

Film producer who enjoyed his greatest success with the 1987 epic The Last Emperor for which he won an Oscar

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20

From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12

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Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2025

James Rebanks: ‘I was a closet reader for years’

The author on having to keep his love of books a secret as a child, struggling with JG Ballard, and the Russian poem he says is the ‘best thing I’ve ever read’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2025

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Climate Change

It's cli-fi time!

The Mary Sue · Aug 6, 2025

An AI-powered Coca-Cola ad campaign mistakenly invented a book by a famous author

A new ad campaign from Coca-Cola appears to mistakenly attribute a non-existent J.G. Ballard work to the author.

Fortune · May 14, 2025

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This dark 2015 sci-fi movie took me by surprise – now it's on Netflix

High-Rise is a weird but excellent film

T3 · Mar 9, 2025

The Position of Spoons and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – an absorbing essay collection

The award-winning author’s thoughts on JG Ballard, Colette and…lemons

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2024

The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2024

Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Five of the best books about fatherhood

The author of Going Home, an acclaimed novel about the effects of unexpected fatherhood on a thirtysomething man, shares his favourites

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024

Is fashion finally slowing down? Prada, Marni, and Stella McCartney shone a spotlight on slower and more sustainable fashion at this year's Met Gala

The Met Gala has never been for the masses, but its impact—whether good or bad—reverberates.

Marie Claire · May 8, 2024

Ballardian fantasy or nightmare? This is how Met Gala guests interpreted 'The Garden of Time' dress code

Here's who nailed the theme

Marie Claire · May 7, 2024

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Met Gala Theme Revealed: 'The Garden Of Time'

Explore J.G. Ballard's dystopian world in 'The Garden of Time' and his lasting influence on art, film, and literature.

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024

Celebrities turn out for Met Gala in high fashion – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2024

Martin Bax obituary

Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Christopher Priest obituary

Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould

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MusicRadar · Dec 6, 2023

How Gary Numan's unexpected discovery of the Minimoog paved the way for The Pleasure Principle and the birth of synth-pop: "I just pressed a key and it made that famous Moog sound, that low growl and the room vibrated. It was the most powerful thing"

"I was trying to prove that electronic music was valid in its own right"

The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2023

Salamander review – Brisbane festival opens with a world-class dance epic

Inspired by JG Ballard’s The Drowned World and set in a Perspex maze created by Beyoncé’s stage designer, this dystopian dance-theatre show is truly unique

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023

Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis

From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be lost for things to do and see in one of the world’s largest cities

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2023

Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke review – a total trip

A fugitive seeks refuge in a 1960s commune in the Lake District, in an energetic novel that captures an era

Space · Jun 15, 2023

Best Love, Death + Robots episodes

Netflix’s science fiction anthology certainly features Love, Death + Robots, but which episodes from three seasons shine the brightest?

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2023

‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2023

M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate ChatGPT’

The titan of literary science fiction on AI hype, writing his ‘anti-memoir’, and his take on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

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