Roger Luckhurst is professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the editor, most recently, of Science Fiction: A Literary History (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Dracula (2017) and co-author, with journalist Andy Beckett, of The Disruption (Texte und Tone, 2017). His cultural history of the corridor appears from Reaktion Press in 2019.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”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
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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."...
The Doom of Repetition: Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep”
STEPHEN KING HAS been in a retrospective groove for a while. He first attempted the long novel Under the Dome in ...
Boiling Point
The literary world tends to think of genre fiction in very short-hand terms, defined by rigid conventions, styles, plots, and readerships....
