Naked Lunch is the book that catapulted William S. Burroughs from a minor author and figure of interest in the…
Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse, by John Lardas) attempts to…
Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a…
Tales of Ordinary Sadness is a collection of fifteen short stories by Neil Randall, and its title is a reference…
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an increasingly important issue.…
In the past few weeks we've brought you book covers from the Chinese translations of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.…
Last week, I updated an old post on Chinese translations of Jack Kerouac's novels. The article proved surprisingly popular, in…
I heard recently that a friend of a friend, owner of a cassette recording of Allen Ginsberg reading from 1964,…
Jack Kerouac's novels, particularly On the Road, are popular all around the world. When Allen Ginsberg arrived in China in…
In this essay, I use a Marxist lens to examine Allen Ginsberg’s controversial and groundbreaking 1956 poem, Howl. Ginsberg, I…
This website uses cookies.