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I wrote about what happens when you find out your house has a dark past. Because it happened to me | via The Guardian theguardian.com/money/2022/nov…

On this 9-week course, lecturer GuyStevenson takes you back to the 1960s countercultural revolution to uncover our modern ideas on race, gender & sexuality & consider why they are in contention again today: gold.ac.uk/short-courses/… 7 Feb-11 April @goldsmithseng #culturalstudies

“'Mueum' is a very English dirge: one of stubborn Pinteresque rudeness, ‘bad tea’ and ‘body odour,’ and cracked, casual violence.” GuyStevenson reviews S.J. Fowler’s new novel.

Some words I wrote for Los Angeles Review of Books on SJ Fowler’s novel, ‘Mueum’. A chilling, funny mashup of Ballard, Pinter, and Cormac McCarthy. Hats off to @partisanhotel for putting this out tinyurl.com/2p86zr8y

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed might be billed as a film about an artist fighting the establishment, but it can be understood as a tender, difficult exploration of Goldin’s quest for the same.' (GuyStevenson) the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-t…

I’ve another review out this week, in The TLS, on Laura Poitras’ Nan Goldin doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’. Expected a film about art & activism; got a masterly, unfiltered portrait of the pain and bravery that shaped her tinyurl.com/mry5bus3

'Written by an ex-ballerina, it looks at what adult life does to childhood dreams, and just how long the resentments and myths imbibed from parents can take to overturn.' (GuyStevenson) the-tls.co.uk/articles/theyr…

Had a blast giving my guest lecture at UvA Amsterdam yesterday (‘understanding the culture wars: how the 60s explain our divided age’). Thank you, Marc Farrant, for having me! And thanks to your students for their smart, sensitive insights into our fraught times #culturewars

Establish a historical view of today’s #CultureWars that are being fought around #IdentifyPolitics on this 9-week course led by GuyStevenson that takes you back to the 1960’s countercultural revolution. Next course starts, 10 October: gold.ac.uk/short-courses/… @goldsmithseng

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by GuyStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 10 October: gold.ac.uk/short-courses/… @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

My latest piece – on James Ellroy's 'The Enchanters', in this month's Literary Review. A brilliantly inventive but slightly icky take on the Marilyn Monroe story literaryreview.co.uk/some-like-it-h…

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by GuyStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 20 February: gold.ac.uk/short-courses/… @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

Here’s my latest piece, on Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac, for Literary Review. A brilliant semi-fictional account of the humans behind the atomic bomb, PCs and AI (inc. lots of juice that Nolan’s Oppenheimer left out): literaryreview.co.uk/the-other-phys…

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by GuyStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 20 February: gold.ac.uk/short-courses/… @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

From this week’s The TLS: GuyStevenson on Pynchon and the Anthropocene the-tls.co.uk/articles/plane…

'Why Do the Heathen Rage? shocks by showing the inner workings of racism on a mind.' Guy Stevenson (GuyStevenson) on Flannery O’Connor’s last novel, reconstructed from her archive the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

V happy to make the front page of this week's The TLS, discussing Jessica Jessica Hooten Wilson's reworking of #FlanneryOConnor's final, unpublished novel, 'Why do the Heathen Rage?' the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

C. S. Lewis, advice to a young writer

'American hypocrisy is revealed through vignettes.' Guy Stevenson (GuyStevenson) on a classic account of a US army massacre in the Vietnam War the-tls.co.uk/history/twenti…