Tag: london
Ship Write
September 2012Isolated for one night in a boat overlooking the Thames, Geoff Dyer explores representations of reality through the lens of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Claire Potter: After Britain’s Gold Rush
August 2012London won its Olympic bid based on a promise to reinvigorate the nation’s interest in sport—now, after the Games, Parliament has to deliver the funds
Natasha Lewis: The Grand Project of the Olympics
July 2012What the top-down planning of the games will bring to East London: dispersal zones, rooftop missiles, and a giant shopping mall.
The Olympian Landscape
July 2012The sign pointing visitors to London’s 2012 Olympic Site could just as easily read “Dystopia For Rent.”
