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Writers: Franz Kafka

An online guide to the life and work of Franz Kafka

There is a point of no return. This point has to be reached.

Franz Kafka, Zürau Aphorisms

Literature

Take the Kafka Quiz
Franz Kafka Centenary: 100 Years of The Judgement
Judith Butler on Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, Sleep and Transformation
Kafka Safety Deposit Boxes to be opened
Franz Kafka, The Trial (Folio Society)
McCrum on Kafka's Manuscripts
Franz Kafka, A Message From the Emperor
Kafka Legal Battle Continues
Smarten up with surrealism
Kafka's Manuscripts on Trial
Franz Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Unseen Kafka Archive to be made public
Kafka's Unseen Papers
Franz Kafka: 'Words are Clumsy Mountaineers'
Michael Foley's Top Ten Absurd Classics
Gunter Ander on Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us'
Kafka: 'Stay at your table and listen'
Ritchie Robertson on Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, The Hunger Artist: Illustrated
Cover Design: Franz Kafka's Complete Works (In German)
50 Tough Books for Extreme Readers
Kafka Translated: How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka

Philosophy and Interpretation

'At last I understand Kafka'
Maurice Blanchot on Kafka
How to read Kafka
Giorgio Agamben on Kafka and The Trial

Writers on Kafka

Samuel Beckett on Franz Kafka
J. G. Ballard's Top Ten Writers
Philip Roth on Kafka and the Holocaust
Banville: Franz Kafka's other trial
W. H. Auden on Franz Kafka
Gabriel Josipovici on Franz Kafka
Will Self, Kafka's Wound: A Digital Literary Essay
Lars Iyer on Max Brod and Franz Kafka

Biography

Introducing... Franz Kafka
From the desk of Franz Kafka
Daily Routines of Writers and Philosophers
Writers' Autographs
Kafka: The Years of Insight
Kafka's Last Love: the Mystery of Dora Diamant

Academic Conferences

Kafka, Religion, and Modernity Conference 2012
Franz Kafka and Philosophy Workshop: 2010
Judith Butler: How to Read Kafka

Theatre

Kafka's The Trial at the Edinburgh Festival
Shiberhur adapt Kafka's In the Penal Colony
Kafka's Metamorphosis as Dance Theatre

Film and Television

Kafka's influence on Michael Haneke
Kafka's Metamorphosis to be Filmed
Orson Welles' adaptation of Kafka's The Trial
Animation: Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor

Etc.

Franz Kafka's Torture Machine
The Drawings of Franz Kafka
Happy Birthday, Franz Kafka
Mendelsund on Kafka as 'countercultural hero'
Literary Rags: Writer and Philosopher T-Shirts
The Next Village Project
'What we both strove after...'
Keeping a diary
Kafka on Etsy
Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka
Mister K & Franz Kafka Exhibition

Writers: Samuel Beckett

An online guide to the life and work of Samuel Beckett

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett, Murphy

Literature

Samuel Beckett Reads Watt
Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones
New Faber Editions of Beckett's Work
Working with Beckett's Manuscripts
Watt: Samuel Beckett's Wartime Manuscripts
Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett's Mercier and Camier
Rare edition of Foirades/Fizzles
The Chess Game from Samuel Beckett's Murphy
Dante, Beckett and the Divine Comedy
Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions
Brian Evenson on Samuel Beckett's Molloy
On Samuel Beckett's Molloy
From Samuel Beckett's Mercier and Camier
Fulcrum: Samuel Beckett as Poet
Samuel Beckett discusses Form with Harold Pinter
More Pricks Than Kicks: Beckett Condensed by John Crace
Faber and Faber unveils new editions of Beckett's work
Samuel Beckett's Ping
Samuel Beckett Selected Poems 1930-1989
Beckett, Joyce and Irish Exile
From Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett, Ceiling
Peter Gay on Beckett and Modernism
Samuel Beckett and Silence
Samuel Beckett's Reading List 1941-1956
Samuel Beckett's Book Collection
Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters and Comic Timing
The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems (Paperback)
John Bolin, Beckett and the Modern Novel
On Beckett's Poems
Samuel Beckett: Physics and Poetics
Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan
For Sale: Samuel Beckett's Murphy Manuscripts
Sold: Samuel Beckett's Murphy Manuscripts
Samuel Beckett Manuscript: Le dépeupleur
Nina Power on Samuel Beckett's How It Is
Samuel Beckett and Quietism
Edward Albee and Paul Auster Discuss Samuel Beckett
Beckett and Animals

Samuel Beckett and Theatre

Waiting for Godot: 60th Anniversary
Anna McMullan on 60 Years of Godot
The Right Way To Say 'Godot'
Working with Samuel Beckett
Syria and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin on Samuel Beckett
Peter Brook on Samuel Beckett's Joy
Rick Cluchey on Samuel Beckett
Beckett and Krapp as Artists
Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe
Leading Ladies: Fiona Shaw in Happy Days
Super Tramps: Star productions of Waiting for Godot
In Godot We Trust
Krapp's Last Tape Anniversary
Jean Martin 1922-2009
Pierre Chabert 1939-2010

Samuel Beckett's Breath

Samuel Beckett's Not I
Billie Whitelaw on Beckett and Play
Michael Foley's Top Ten Absurd Classics
Who is Beckett's Godot?
George Hunka on Samuel Beckett and Politics
Samuel Beckett's Revelation
Herbert Blau 1926-2013
Lars Iyer on Literature's Antagonistic Couples
Men Who Played the 'Boy' in Waiting for Godot
Anthony Uhlmann on Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett: Berlin Panel Discussion
Staging Beckett: Ian Rickson in Conversation
McKellen and Stewart on Beckett and Laughter
Actors' Experiences of Samuel Beckett's Plays
Samuel Beckett Theatre Productions in 2014
What lies beneath Samuel Beckett's half-buried women?
Stanley E Gontarski: Working with Beckett
Beckett Manuscript Donations: Trinity College Dublin
George Hunka on Waiting for Godot
The Samuel Beckett Theatre Project c.1967-76
Samuel Beckett: Small vs. Large Theatres

Theatrical Productions

First Love, UK Production 2014
London Premiere: Gare St Lazare to perform Beckett's First Love

Waiting for Godot, UK Production 2014
Arcola Theatre, Waiting for Godot

Roughs, UK Production 2014
Samuel Beckett: Roughs

Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby, UK Production 2014
Lisa Dwan to perform Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby (2014)
Lisa Dwan rehearses Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre
Beckett's Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby set for West End
Praise for Lisa Dwan's Samuel Beckett Trilogy
Lisa Dwan on Beckett, Rehearsal, and Audience Response

Waiting for Godot, Irish Production 2013
Waiting for Godot: Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
Waiting for Godot in Boston

Krapp's Last Tape, US Production 2013
Rick Cluchey: An Evening of Beckett
Rick Cluchey on An Evening of Beckett

Not I, UK Production 2013
Lisa Dwan to perform Samuel Beckett's Not I

Molloy, First Love, UK Production 2013
Gare St Lazare Players: April-June 2013

Watt, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, UK Production 2013
Brighton Festival 2013: Here All Night

'Beckett at the Festival', UK Production 2013
Edinburgh Festival 2013: Samuel Beckett Season

Samuel Beckett: Winter Warmed, UK Production 2013
Samuel Beckett: Winter Warmed

That Time, Embers, Rough for Theatre II, US Production 2013
Arcturus Theater Company: 3 by Samuel Beckett

Watt, UK Production 2012
Watt: Edinburgh International Festival 2012

Krapp’s Last Tape, UK Production 2012
Krapp's Last Tape: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012

Krapp’s Last Tape, Come and Go, A Piece of Monologue and Rockaby, UK Productions 2012
Mouth on Fire: Four Beckett Plays

Waiting for Godot, US Production 2012
Fastest Godot in the West
Beckett veterans unite for US production of Waiting for Godot
Review: Beckett's Waiting for Godot / Pinter's The Caretaker

First Love, The End, The Trilogy, Irish Production 2012
Gare St Lazare Players embark on Beckett tour of Ireland

Waiting for Godot, UK Production 2012
Talawa Theatre Company production of Waiting for Godot

Krapp's Last Tape, US Production 2012

John Hurt returns to Krapp's Last Tape (2012)

Krapp's Last Tape, UK Production 2012
Beckett and Pinter Productions at the Bristol Old Vic

Krapp's Last Tape, US Production 2011
John Hurt on Samuel Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape
John Hurt revisits Krapp's Last Tape

Fragments: Five Beckett texts adapted by Peter Brook (New York)
Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York hosts Samuel Beckett adaptations

All That Fall, Irish Production 2011
Pan Pan Theatre presents Samuel Beckett's All That Fall
Review: Samuel Beckett's All That Fall (Dublin)

Krapp's Last Tape, US Production 2011
John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape (2011)

Happy Days, UK Production 2011
Pauline McLynn in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days

What Where, Not I, Catastrophe, Rough for Theatre II
Portugese productions, 2011
Teatro Plástico: Samuel Beckett

First Love and The End, UK productions 2011
Conor Lovett to perform at York Beckett festival

Happy Days, Irish Production 2010
Beckett's Happy Days in Dublin

First Love, Australian Production 2010
Lovett to perform Beckett's First Love in Australia

Waiting for Godot, UK/Australia production moves to South Africa
Waiting for Godot: Khayelitsha, South Africa

Krapp's Last Tape, Gate Theatre Production 2010
Michael Gambon in Krapp's Last Tape
Michael Gambon in London production of Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape opens in London

Breath and Other Shorts, Dublin 2010
Breath and Other Shorts

Endgame, US Production 2010

Beckett's Endgame: Dallas, Texas

Waiting for Godot, UK/Australia Production 2010
Waiting for Godot: Haymarket, London
Sir Ian McKellen mistaken for Gogo

Endgame, UK Production 2009
Simon McBurney on performing Beckett's Endgame
Critics Review Complicite's Endgame
Beckett's Endgame at the Duchess Theatre
Simon McBurney on Beckett's Stage Directions

Waiting for Godot, UK Production 2009

"What's not to get?": Michael Billington on Waiting for Godot

Bluffer's Guide to Godot

A Godot Worth Waiting For

Waiting for Godot: Stewart Argues with a fan at UK Revival

Godot Has Arrived

Waiting for Godot on BBC's The Culture Show

Waiting for Godot Announced: Dates and Venues

Waiting for Godot, US Production 2009

New York Times on Broadway's Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot on Broadway

Not I, UK Production 2009
Samuel Beckett's Not I at London's Southbank

Eh Joe, US Production 2008
Atom Egoyan on Beckett's Eh Joe

Beckett Shorts, US Production 2007
Samuel Beckett Shorts

Krapp's Last Tape, UK Production 2006

Harold Pinter in Krapp's Last Tape
Harold Pinter on Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape

Directing Pinter in Krapp's Last Tape

Philosophy and Interpretation

The Beckett Circle: New Website
Modernism/Modernity: Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive
Blanchot and Beckett's Letters
Samuel Beckett Series 2: Speech, Gaze, and the Body
Samuel Beckett Series 3: The "dramaticules"
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui: The Trilogy
Limit(e) Beckett: Issue 1: Spectral Beckett
Limit(e) Beckett: A New Online Academic Journal
Limit(e) Beckett: CFP: Cliché in the work of Samuel Beckett
Limit(e) Beckett: Samuel Beckett in Post-War France
Samuel Beckett and Germany: JOBS Special Issue
A Companion to Samuel Beckett
Simon Critchley: Beckett, Literature, Philosophy
Simon Critchley on Krapp's Last Tape
Simon Critchley Interviewed on Swedish Television
Simon Critchley on Samuel Beckett
Critchley on Samuel Beckett's Film
Travels in Nihilon: Critchley on Beckett and Adorno
Beckett and Schopenhauer
Beckett and Schopenhauer: Art and Philosophy
Marjorie Perloff on Samuel Beckett
Andrew Gibson on Samuel Beckett
David Tucker on Samuel Beckett
Alain Badiou on discovering Beckett
Alain Badiou on Krapp's Last Tape
George Steiner on Samuel Beckett
Michel Foucault on Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Slavoj Žižek on Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Masonry
I'll Go On: An Afternoon of Samuel Beckett
Buried Alive: Beckett and the Uncanny
Samuel Beckett rejected 'Absurdist' label
Ruby Cohn 1922-2011
Peter Fifield, Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
Samuel Beckett and the Archive: Rewriting the Beckett Canon
Trish McTighe, The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett's Drama

Conferences, Seminars & Festivals

Beckett's Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance, Durham, NC, 2015
Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures, University of Reading 2015
Samuel Beckett Society Inaugural Conference, Arizona State University 2015
Samuel Beckett Week, University of Reading 2014
Staging Beckett: Constructing Performance Histories, University of Reading 2014
Staging Beckett: Conference Programme, University of Reading 2014
Beckett at Reading 2013: An International Conference
Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland: University College Dublin 2013
Samuel Beckett: Form and History: Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013
Beyond Historicism: Resituating Samuel Beckett 2012
Happy Days: Enniskillen International Beckett Festival
London Beckett Seminar 2012: Samuel Beckett and Science
London Beckett Seminar 2013: Beckett and Nordau
Samuel Beckett Working Group: University of Southampton, 2012
Samuel Beckett Working Group: Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, 2013
Samuel Beckett Working Group: University of Warwick, 2014
Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland: University College Dublin 2012
Samuel Beckett and German Culture: Technische Universität Darmstadt: 2011
Samuel Beckett Research Day Seminar: University of Reading: 2010
Samuel Beckett Research Day Seminar: University of Reading: 2011
Samuel Beckett Research Day Seminar: University of Reading: 2012
Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland: University College Dublin 2011
Beckett, Blanchot and Philosophy: University of Sussex, 2010
Samuel Beckett: Encounter of Philosophy and Literature, Seminar 2011
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive: University of York: June 2011
Peter Fifield on York's Samuel Beckett Conference
Samuel Beckett Summer School: Trinity College, Dublin 2011
Samuel Beckett Summer School: Trinity College, Dublin 2012
Samuel Beckett Summer School: Trinity College, Dublin 2013
Samuel Beckett Summer School: Trinity College, Dublin 2014
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2010: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2011: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies (CFP) 2011: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2012: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2012: Postgraduate Symposium
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2012: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2013: University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2014: University of Oxford
Beckett and Brain Science: Free Warwick Symposium
Beckett and Brain Science: Free London Symposium
Beckett and Brain Science: Free Symposium
Beckett and the Brain: Birkbeck College Seminar
Beckett Between: Paris Conference 2010
Reading University: Beckett Conference 2009

Jobs

AHRC Research Post: Samuel Beckett (Chester)

Writers on Beckett

Harold Pinter on meeting Samuel Beckett
Maeve Binchy on meeting Samuel Beckett
Harold Pinter on Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett discusses Form with Harold Pinter
Pinter's Beckett first edition returned to Library
Paul Auster on Meeting Samuel Beckett
Paul Auster on the Importance of Laughter in Beckett
William Burroughs and Susan Sontag on meeting Beckett
J. M. Coetzee on Beckett's Letters
John Banville on Samuel Beckett's Letters
Don DeLillo on Samuel Beckett
Gabriel Josipovici reviews Beckett Letters 1941-1956
Colm Tóibín on Samuel Beckett and his mother

Biography

Waiting for Beckett: A Portrait of Samuel Beckett Documentary
Samuel Beckett in Conversation (Rare Recording)
Samuel Beckett discusses Form with Harold Pinter
Samuel Beckett's House in Ussy-sur-Marne
Samuel Beckett's Bookshelf
Samuel Beckett's Library
Gerald Thomas meets Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett and the Literary Marketplace
Samuel Beckett's Letters: 1929-1956
Samuel Beckett the Sportsman
'Beckett was Here': The Literary Review on Beckett's Letters
The Observer reviews Samuel Beckett's Letters
Samuel Beckett's Letters in the New Yorker
'Mountains of Mail': The Letters of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett's Letters
Samuel Beckett's Letters: Book of the Year 2009?
Samuel Beckett Letters at Sothebys
'As The Wind Takes Me': Beckett in Hamburg, 1936
Samuel Beckett's German Diaries to be published
Beckett's Germany
The Beckett Estate: An Interview with Edward Beckett
Samuel Beckett in Conversation with Bram van Velde
TLS on Conversations with Beckett and van Velde
Beckett's handwriting
George Craig, Writing Beckett's Letters
Editing Beckett's Letters: An Interview with Dan Gunn
Last Words: Mel Gussow Remembers Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett and the Grove Press
Publisher Barney Rosset on Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett on Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett in Paris
Twentieth Anniversary of Beckett's death: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989
Barbara Bray 1924-2010
The Irish Times publishes Beckett Letters
Second volume of Beckett Letters published
Dan Gunn on Samuel Beckett's Letters
TLS Reviews Beckett Letters 1941-1956
Samuel Beckett Letters win MLA Award
Samuel Beckett's Obsession with Chess
Alba Arikha on her godfather, Samuel Beckett
Beckett and Pinter: Literary Memoirs

Art and Photography

Samuel Beckett: Clay Animation Project
Samuel Beckett Chess Set
Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones in 3D
Karin Lapidot: Samuel Beckett Paperbacks
Bob Adelman's Images of Samuel Beckett
Miroslaw Balka and Samuel Beckett: How It Is
Hendrik Wittkopf and Lee Rourke on Beckett
Samuel Beckett's Doodles
Rivane Neuenschwander adapts Beckett's First Love as Art Installation
Amélie Doistau: French editions of Beckett's work
Picador, Beckett and Russell Mills
Portraits of Beckett as a Famous Writer
Beckett's Car: Art Project
Beckett and Painting: Caspar David Friedrich
Creative Review on Faber's new Beckett editions
Samuel Beckett at CHELSEA Space (2006)
Atelier 25: French Beckett editions
Alan Moore cites Beckett as an influence
John Minihan on Samuel Beckett
Avigdor Arikha: Works from the Estate
The Bohemyth: Samuel Beckett Special Issue
A Reluctant Subject: Portraits of Samuel Beckett

Film and Television

Samuel Beckett's Not I to premiere on Sky Arts
Samuel Beckett's Plays on BBC Television
Alan Schneider on Samuel Beckett's Film
Beckett and Keaton talk about Film
Shooting Locations: Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett Speaks
Film footage of Samuel Beckett, 1969
Jack MacGowran in Beckett's Beginning to End
David Cronenberg on Beckett and Spider
Stewart Lee on Waiting for Godot as a BBC Talent Show
Critchley on Samuel Beckett's Film
Beckett on Film: Neil Jordan's Not I
NotFilm: New Documentary on Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett in Conversation (Rare Recording)

Radio

Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio

Music

Cygnus Ensemble: Sounding Beckett (New York, 2012)
The Music of Irish Writers

Etc.

Samuel Beckett on Holiday
Keep Calm, I'll Go On
Dustin Hoffman on (not) meeting Samuel Beckett
'Fail better' Beckett Desktop Wallpaper
Sam's a Laugh: Comedians on Beckett's Funny Side
Literary Rags: Writer and Philosopher T-Shirts
Writer's Autographs
The Samuel Beckett Leather Porfolio
Popular Ivy League Names
Samuel Beckett Bridge arrives in Dublin
Samuel Beckett Bridge Opens
Samuel Beckett for President
Nick Clegg's Hero: Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Cleggot: Clegg and Beckett
Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett: Guardian Quiz
Waiting for Elmo: Sesame Street spoofs Waiting for Godot
How to Write Like Samuel Beckett
Desperately Seeking Sam
100 Things You Never Knew About Samuel Beckett
How Beckett Can Save Your Life
Simon Schubert's Paper Art
Blonde Bookworm: Marilyn Monroe's love of literature
Irish Company: James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
The Beckett Circle on Barney Rosset
Literary Mentorships: James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
The Samuel Beckett Guide to Grades
Not-So-Dead Letters

Writers: Clarice Lispector

An online guide to the life and work of Clarice Lispector

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Clarice Lispector

Literature

Why You Should Know Clarice Lispector
The Poetic Riddle of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector: Cult Hero
Clarice Lispector, First Kiss
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector: New Translations

Biography

Clarice Lispector and Jewishness

Writers: Lydia Davis

An online guide to the life and work of Lydia Davis

Art is not in some far-off place.

Lydia Davis

Literature

Christopher Ricks on Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis on Literary Influence
Lydia Davis on very short stories
Top Ten Novels About Solitude
50 Tough Books for Extreme Readers
Little Star: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

Translation

Lydia Davis on Madame Bovary and Vladimir Nabokov
Lydia Davis on Translating Madame Bovary
Lydia Davis reviews Rimbaud's Illuminations
Marcel Proust: Which Translation?
Maurice Blanchot at Station Hill

Biography

Lydia Davis Wins Booker International Prize 2013
Paul Auster, Winter Journal

Composers: Arvo Pärt

An online guide to the life and work of Arvo Pärt

I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.

Arvo Pärt

Music

Arvo Pärt on the Creative Process
Arvo Pärt: Sources of Invention
Tom Service on Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt on Tintinnabulation

Biography

Music & Literature talks to Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt Documentary: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Arvo Pärt Documentary: And then came the evening and the morning (1990)

Meeting Arvo Pärt
The Silence and Awe of Arvo Pärt

Filmmakers: David Lynch

An online guide to the life and work of David Lynch

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

David Lynch

Film

David Lynch on Ideas, Cinema and Billy Wilder
David Lynch: Behind the Scenes of Eraserhead
David Lynch: Eraserhead Interview (1979)
David Lynch talks to Mike Figgis
Is David Lynch Retiring from film?
David Lynch: Director of Dreams?
David Lynch on Place in Film
David Lynch MA in Film
David Lynch's The Alphabet
Peter Bradshaw on Blue Velvet
Mysteries of Love: Documentary on Lynch and Blue Velvet
The Blue Velvet Project
David Lynch and Digital Modernism
David Lynch on Surrealist Cinema
David Lynch on The Elephant Man
The Production Design of Lynch, Malick & Anderson
David Lynch on Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery
Mulholland Drive Screening: Barbican, London
Lost Highway Screening: V&A, London
I See Myself: David Lynch on Eraserhead

Art and Painting

David Lynch Artwork Retrospective
David Lynch Loves to Paint
David Lynch guest-edits Wallpaper*
David Lynch, Works on Paper
David Lynch on Painting
David Lynch on Film, Art and Photography

Others on Lynch

Kyle MacLachlan on David Lynch
Will Self interviews David Lynch
Tom McCarthy on the Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch
J. G. Ballard on Blue Velvet

Television

Twin Peaks: Behind the Scenes Photographs
Twin Peaks Weekender
David Lynch on BBC's The Culture Show
David Lynch on Film vs. Television
David Lynch on Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks

Music

Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack Recording (Deluxe Edition)
David Lynch on Music, Ideas and Brutality
David Lynch releases pop single
David Lynch and Lykke Li, I'm Waiting Here
David Lynch: Making The Big Dream
David Lynch films Nine Inch Nails video
David Lynch on Music and The Big Dream
Angelo Badalamenti on Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks

Biography

David Lynch: Guru of Transcendental Meditation
David Lynch on Having a Setup
David Lynch in Paris
David Lynch on Meditation
David Lynch and the Big Fish
The Man from Another Place

Academic Conferences

Mapping the Lost Highway: David Lynch Conference

Miscellaneous

Inside David Lynch's Club Silencio, Paris
Burroughs, Lynch and Warhol: Photography Exhibition
David Lynch's Club Silencio
Smarten up with surrealism
David Lynch on Twitter, Parties and Freedom
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa

Philosophers: Simon Critchley

An online guide to the life and work of Simon Critchley

There is an ancient Ciceronian wisdom that says to philosophize is to learn how to die, but learning how to die also tells us something about philosophizing.

Simon Critchley, Very Little... Almost Nothing

Literature

Simon Critchley: Beckett, Literature, Philosophy
Simon Critchley: Do It, England (The Hamlet Doctrine, Part I)
Simon Critchley on Krapp's Last Tape 
Simon Critchley on Samuel Beckett
Fulcrum: Samuel Beckett as Poet
Travels in Nihilon: Critchley on Beckett and Adorno
Talk About Nothing: Simon Critchley and Fiona Shaw

Philosophy

Continental Philosophy
Simon Critchley's How to Read Series
Simon Critchley on Critical Theory
Simon Critchley on the Pursuit of Happiness
Simon Critchley on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 
Heidegger on Death
Simon Critchley reflects on Punk and Nihilism
Martin Heidegger on Anxiety
Critchley: Heidegger and Conscience
Critchley: 'What is a philosopher?'
The Big Think Interviews Simon Critchley
Figure/Ground Communication talks to Simon Critchley
Heidegger and the Nazism Debate
Human, All Too Human: BBC's Martin Heidegger Documentary
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
Simon Critchley discusses The Faith of the Faithless
Simon Critchley Interview: The Faith of the Faithless
Simon Critchley on the Tragic and its Limits

Academic Conferences

Simon Critchley on Shakespeare and Theory
Simon Critchley/Tom McCarthy Panels
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive: York 2011
Simon Critchley Workshop: Texas, 2010
Mapping the Lost Highway: David Lynch Conference 2009
Simon Critchley: Style in Theory
Can the Public Intellectual Save the University?

Film and Television

Simon Critchley Interviewed on Swedish Television
Simon Critchley on Samuel Beckett's Film  
Critchley on Nature in Terrence Malick

Art

Simon Critchley on Contemporary Art

Writers: J. G. Ballard

An online guide to the life and work of J. G. Ballard

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Literature

Browsing the J. G. Ballard Archives
J. G. Ballard Manuscripts at the British Library
Ballard, Bourgeoisie and Violent Crime
Ballard: 'Freud was a born storyteller'
J. G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs
'Inmate in the cosmic madhouse': Ballard on Burroughs
J. G. Ballard's Top Ten Writers
Artforum on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard: How I Write
J. G. Ballard, Complete Short Stories
J. G. Ballard's Crash and Cocaine Nights
David B. Livingstone on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on the Disneyfication of Museums
Lars Iyer on Literature's Antagonistic Couples

Writers on Ballard

John Gray and Will Self on J. G. Ballard
Will Self: 'My hero, J. G. Ballard'
Will Self pays tribute to J. G. Ballard
Will Self on Ballard and Academia
Will Self on Literature and Visual Arts
Will Self on the influence of J. G. Ballard
Moorcock remembers J. G. Ballard
William Boyd on J. G. Ballard

Biography

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard 1967-2008
J. G. Ballard, Miracles of Life: From Shanghai to Shepperton
J. G. Ballard's Shepperton House for Sale
J. G. Ballard 1930-2009
Bea Ballard on her late father, J. G. Ballard
Clare Walsh on her relationship with J. G. Ballard
Writers interviewed in The Paris Review
J. G. Ballard: The Inner Man
Review: John Baxter's J. G. Ballard Biography

Film and Television

The South Bank Show: J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on Blue Velvet 
Christian Bale on J. G. Ballard
Chris Petit on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on Special Objects
The Unmade Films of J. G. Ballard
David Cronenberg on J. G. Ballard

Art & Photography

Screaming Popes: J. G. Ballard on Francis Bacon
Ballard: Portraits of the Artist

Writers: W. G. Sebald

An online guide to the life and work of W. G. Sebald

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

W. G. Sebald

Literature

W. G. Sebald Reads Austerlitz
Why You Should Be Reading W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald: Writing Tips
W. G. Sebald on History, Memory and Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald, Campo Santo
W. G. Sebald & Jan Peter Tripp, Unrecounted
That Other Word: Episode 3
W. G. Sebald, Across Land and Water
The Making of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
James Wood on Sebald's Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald's Writing Style
Texts in Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald Interviewed on Bookworm
W. G. Sebald: Writing Pictures
W. G. Sebald on Robert Walser
Sebald on Walser: 'My Constant Companion'
W. G. Sebald on his life and work
W. G. Sebald on Writing, Memory and Modern Culture
W. G. Sebald on Being a Writer
Sebald and Proust: Failure to Recover the Past
W. G. Sebald and Austerlitz in London
Karen Stuke, After Sebald's Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald, A Place in the Country
Damion Searls on Sebald's A Place in the Country

Writers on Sebald

Will Self on Sebald and the Holocaust
Coetzee on Sebald and the Uncanny
Teju Cole on Sebald's Poetry
Will Self and Others on W. G. Sebald
Iain Sinclair, Austerlitz and After: Tracking Sebald
Robert McCrum on W. G. Sebald

Biography

W. G. Sebald as Academic
Twelve Seminars with W. G. Sebald

Academic Conferences

Remembering W. G. Sebald

Film and Television

Patience (After Sebald): Official Trailer
Grant Gee on Patience (After Sebald)
Grant Gee, Patience (After Sebald)
Patience (After Sebald): A Documentary
Grant Gee on Sebald and Joy Division
Walking in the Footsteps of W. G. Sebald
Photography in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz

Etc.

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