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The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard
Places Journal
H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard both put architecture at the heart of their fiction, and both made the humble corner into a place of nightmares.
Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube
Places Journal
Vienna and Budapest can be viewed as battlefields in a European crisis of identity that threatens the continent’s political unity and raises fundamental questions about the future of Europe.
The Man Who Wrote Too Well
Places Journal
Reyner Banham was not only an extraordinary scholar but also a prodigiously productive journalist. Consider his remarkable analysis of a legendary crash-test dummy.