The Dialectic
A magazine for the culturally curious, exploring music, art, literature, film, design and current affairs.
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Wrestling With The Fire Horse (opens the original)
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MUSICAL BOX: Badly Drawn Boy (opens the original)
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Right Place, Right Time (opens the original)
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I’M IN NO doubt at all that photography is an art form, but now that anyone can take a reasonably good photo using a phone - more than reasonably good if they take a couple of moments to compose it - it’s getting harder to recall a time when a competent photographic image could only be made with technical expertise, and considerable patience. In the fie… Read more
Joe Orton: Crescendo to the Final Chord (opens the original)
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If you read his diary all will be explained. P.S. Especially the latter part. Kenneth Halliwell, 9th August 1967.1I think they are the best diaries of the post war period - full stop - in terms of the culture, because they’re brilliantly written, hilarious and caustic.John Lahr, editor of The Orton Diaries.2ARE YOU A def
MUSICAL BOX: Jumpin' at the Woodside (opens the original)
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