Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers

Nicolas Hausdorf, author of a renowned ‘superstructural tourist guide to Berlin,’ reviews a new literary guide to that great city by Continue reading →

HKRB Essays: Dylan and Deleuze – The Times They Are A-Changing

In the latest HKRB Essay Kimberley Clarke discusses the Dylan Nobel Prize saga, arguing that the conflation of music and Continue reading →

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Jeremy Simmons reviews the 2014 Booker Prize winner in light of its new edition. Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: Theory and the Act of Revolution

Angus Reoch re-reads John Reed’s classic 1919 text 10 Days That Shook The World and discusses how the revolution eclipses those who help Continue reading →

The Hatred of Poetry

Stephen Lee Naish discusses the idea of ‘poetic justice’ and reviews Ben Lerner’s well received treatise on why we all hate poems Continue reading →