Un portrait intime quoique sans concession d’un homme qui ­appartenait sans doute à une race en voie de disparition, mais dont le ­souvenir garde toute sa vivacité.

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G.

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first…

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

»Ich bin zweiundzwanzigeinhalb. Ich bin ich geknebelt, gefesselt, in Arrest versetzt, der Rebellion und der Anstiftung zum Ungehorsam angeklagt.«

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience.