An interview with Hey Ø Hansen
The duo is now embraced by the avant crowd as witnessed by their upcoming gig at Ausland on September 3. They chose to communicate with us in one voice, Hey typing, Hansen cooking.
View ArticleWalter Crasshole: Either way you'll drop dead
Summer's come and gone, but things are just starting to heat up. Walter Crasshole takes you down festival lane, gives you flick tips from your favorite press-baiting director and keeps it classy with...
View Article"I'm a Groucho-Marxist": Buzz Osborne of Melvins
FROM THE ARCHIVES. King Buzzo lays down the law for us after touring behind the Chicken Switch remix album. More law comes when they play Volksbühne on Oct 16.
View ArticleILB: Michail Schischkin
Born in 1961, Schischkin’s acclaimed, multi-translated Maiden H air was published in 2006. Staged in Moscow, the book scooped up awards across Russian and international literature circles. Schischkin...
View ArticleILB: Rawi Hage
Having moved to North America from Beirut at the age of 18, Hage became an ‘accidental’ author after writing fictive stories to document his photography. His acclaimed debut novel, De Niro’s Game, was...
View ArticleILB: Ken Babstock
Born in 1970, the Toronto-based writer published his first collection in 1999 and has since been consistently selected for anthologies of the best Canadian poetry.
View ArticleILB: Chirikure Chirikure
Born 1962, Chirikure belongs to the oral tradition of Shona literature and often performs to musical accompaniment with traditional Zimbabwean instruments.
View ArticleILB: Paul Harding
Born in 1967 in Massachusetts, the Guggenheim Fellow is an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he began his 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, Tinkers.
View ArticleILB: Kathy Reichs
Reichs is the author of Déjà Dead, the first of 14 crime fiction novels whose protagonist, Temperance Brennan, mirrors Reich’s work as a forensic anthropologist, including her role identifying...
View ArticleILB: Ha Jin
In 1985 at age 29, Jin left China for the US, where he has since published poems and novels in English, his second language – including War Trash and Waiting. His work has earned him the PEN/Hemingway...
View ArticleILB: Irvine Welsh
Born in 1958, Welsh is the Booker shortlisted author of the notorious debut novel Trainspotting and later books which enter the netherworld of Scotland’s working class, teeming with football hooligans,...
View ArticleLars von Trier and the cowardly lions
On Sep 3 Babylon held a two-hour in-person Q&A with the notorious director. His first significant public appearance since the Cannes fiasco, Giovanni Marchini Camia lets you know whether there was...
View ArticleThe Eerily Familiar: Images of Terror
With over 200 works from Der Spiegel archives and 30 international photographers, the group exhibition explores images of war and the role of concentrated media visual practices in cultivating our...
View Article“The good thing about problems is that they are timeless”
Interview: Aki Kaurismäki. The Finnish director claims he’s said everything he wanted to say – “three times”. We probed him to get something new.
View ArticleAlec Ounsworth in five dates
2000 Graduates from Connecticut College with keyboardist Lee Sargent; the two form Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
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DENNIS KARSTEN, director of Mauerpark, a film about Berlin’s beloved park, its birds, tourists, bongo drums, cleaners, ageing DJs and basketball nuts in the backdrop of looming gentrification.
View ArticleI'm so green: Can's Holger Czukay on his Berlin youth
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Künstlerhaus Bethanien hosts group show Halleluhwah! Hommage à Can, opening Thu, Nov 24. Czukay spoke with us in Sep 2006.
View Article"Expansion through repetition"
Interview: Moon Duo. Sanae Yamada and Ripley Johnson play a space rock sound that's drawn comparisons to the Velvet Underground. They rock Festsaal Kreuzberg on Oct 8.
View Article"What I see in real life is worse"
Interview: director Cédric Klapisch. While Klapisch began his career in comedy, he now moves on to more serious affairs with Ma part du gâteau (Mein Stück vom Kuchen).
View ArticleAnother junkie caper?
Interview: Tony O'Neill. The New York writer's new novel, Sick City, rampages through its story with a zeal for sex, violence and consumption that recalls William S. Burroughs and Dennis Cooper.
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