Features
Blueprint for a bestseller
Earlier this month, at the Publishing Industry's annual BookExpo America, American author John Updike stated in a speech made to…
To Smoke or not to Smoke? That is the question!
The issues surrounding the banning of smoking in public and the more recent flurries about banning on-stage smoking have been…
Artists with borders
After September 11 and the ensuing ‘war on terror’, the United States and many of its Western allies went into…
Artists clustered around creative industries
In the past artists were supported and directed by patrons. Today it is clients and arts boards that dictate an…
A necessary refuge
One would be hard pressed to look at any of the world’s media sources nowadays without coming across a story…
Victory for abusive artists
On the evening of January 31st, 2006 the Blair government suffered a shock defeat over its plans to combat racial…
Framing the front line
"The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware…
Purple Heart Poetics
April is National Poetry Month in the United States. We don’t have a national book, or national painting, or national…
Angry young things
The term 'Angry Young Men' was a journalistic catchphrase applied to a generation of British writers, who in their work…
Swapping violence for viola
When you think of words synonymous with Palestine, ‘music’ and ‘violin’ are probably not ones that spring to mind. But…