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The loss of inevitability
History rejects inevitability.
20 hrs ago • David Lewis
The transcendent guitar
If Allan Holdsworth, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin belong in the same conversation under the word transcendence, it is not because they share…
Feb 13 • David Lewis
A new approach - contra-modernism.
Contra-Modern
Feb 7 • David Lewis
The Mind, the Castle, the World: How Poe, Stoker, and Lovecraft Frighten Us
The most enduring horror is not about monsters.
Feb 3 • David Lewis
The Grammar of Violence.
What changed between the loud enforcer of 1980s Kings Cross and the quiet killer of contemporary suburbia?
Jan 31 • David Lewis
Confession Without Redemption: Australian Songs of Crime and Punishment
There’s a persistent assumption, largely inherited from American culture, that confession in popular song is redemptive.
Jan 25 • David Lewis
Knights without armour: Chivalry and crime fiction
Detective fiction did not invent the lone moral agent; it inherited him.
Jan 24 • David Lewis
Six Englands: pop music and the decline of Englishness
English music in the second half of the twentieth century travelled further than almost anything else the country produced.
Jan 23 • David Lewis
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