History as Magical Unrealism:A review of ‘The Indian Caliphate’
Author: Mat Brown Imran Mulla’s The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince is a debut publication, telling the tale of the last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire, and a plan to transfer the seat of the Caliphate from Constantinople to Hyderabad. The book presents itself as an ‘untold history’, a patchwork of ravishing…
Voyage to a Beginning: A review of Gary Lachman’s ‘Touched by the Presence’
Author: Luke Gilfedder Rock memoir, spiritual memoir, showbiz memoir—these are genres that induce groans, not least because they are that very thing: genres, generic, thus standardised. Yet Touched by the Presence, Gary ‘Valentine’ Lachman’s memoir of Magic, Rock and Roll, and Becoming Who You Are, belongs to no genre save its own. It is, like…
‘Cold War Legacies’: An Explication
Casey Morris reviews ‘Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics’ a book about the continuing and pervasive world of the past century which lingers in our day-to-day lives.
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