Roger Luckhurst is the Geoffrey Tillotson Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. His recent books include a cultural history of the corridor (Reaktion, 2019) and Gothic: An Illustrated History (Thames & Hudson/Princeton UP, 2021). His global history of the graveyard will appear in 2024.
Roger Luckhurst
Articles
A Lifetime Drama of Escape: On M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here”
Roger Luckhurst reviews M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir.”
Science Fiction as Mode of Action: On MIT Press’s “Uneven Futures”
Roger Luckhurst reviews the new collection of essays “Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction” from MIT Press.
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”
"k-punk" is a primer in how to write cultural criticism today. If it is a catastrophe that we no longer have Mark Fisher, we at least have this collection.
The Cost of War: Parts and Labor
Ahmed Saadawi’s novel “Frankenstein in Baghdad” continues to win prizes for good reason: it is one of the best fictional accounts of the Iraq War yet.
Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie”
Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and the Eerie” is a fitting tribute to an author who had the rare capacity to write lucidly about dark and difficult things.
In Memoriam: Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher's fans, friends, and colleagues remember the author of "Capitalist Realism" and "The Weird and the Eerie."
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