British writer Sinclair is best known on this side of the Atlantic for two cultishly popular works of nonfiction—Lights Out for the Territory, a virtuosic London travel narrative, and Rodinsky's Room ...

For as long as I can remember I have always carried a small Swiss Army knife on my keyring, to help me out in those emergency situations when you just need a knife or a small pair of scissors to sort ...

Iain Sinclair has a terrific way with titles: Witness “Slow Chocolate Autopsy” (fiction), “Lights Out for the Territory” (nonfiction), “Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal” (poetry). That these titles don’t ...

For every successful Olympic Games, such as Sydney's in 2000, there are twice as many failures. Montreal famously declared that the 1976 Olympics would pay for themselves; instead the city needed ...

Thousands of elite athletes have descended on London for the 2012 Olympic Games, and spectators the world over are tuning in to enjoy the action. But five years' worth of development has left some ...

Several years ago, designer Iain Sinclair launched the Cardsharp, a razor-sharp stainless steel knife folded into a credit card-shaped package. The knife combined real-world function with sleek, ...

Until lately Iain Sinclair’s work was little known in the U.S. In the U.K., he came to readers’ attention with “Lud Heat” (1975). A mixture of verse and prose, it described his experience as a manual ...

A combination of documentary and experimental video, "London Orbital" is preoccupied with Britain's M25 motorway, which circles London for 120 miles. This collaboration between filmmaker and novelist ...

Local history and visionary prose are unlikely literary bedfellows. But the two combine in spectacular fashion in "Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire," a new quasi-fictional homage to the gritty East ...

There are few places as alluring as the rabbit hole that is ‘Old Soho.’ A gritty, artistic haven of creativity, debauchery and sexual liberation, its postcode is hazardous, yet utterly addictive — ...

The cultural conversation continues: this week the film director and screenwriter Sally El Hosaini meets the writer Iain Sinclair. As a film-maker Sally records the city at one moment - so what ...

With cameras pretty much standard equipment on mobile phones nowadays, a lot of people don’t bother with the extra hassle of carrying around a separate one, even if it means sacrificing picture ...