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Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson is the author of Imaginary Cities (Influx Press, 2015). He tweets at @Oniropolis.

During the Troubles in Ireland, Darran Anderson remembers finding sanctuary in County Derry’s amusement arcades 

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In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

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From his dreams of Glasgow to nocturnal self-portraits, there was an edge to the writer and artist: a deep well of strangeness

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Inciting a sense of of playful menace, the ethos of the legendary art school resurfaced in forces as diverse as Terence Conran, Factory Records, and Leigh Bowery

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The British Museum’s survey of Japanese comics plunges us into their strange, visionary wonderlands

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The painter found something much more important than grandeur in ‘ukiyo-e’: the messy realities of everyday life 

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The retrospective at Tate Britain of the veteran photographer is filled with masterpieces that are also crime scenes

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Isao Takahata’s landmark 1988 anime, which now receives its US theatrical release, crafts a dark moral universe through moments of poignant stillness

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What a brief history of creative destruction reveals about the Sotheby’s shredding stunt

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From Grave of the Fireflies to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the visionary director grounded fantasy with emotional force

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Two shows in London, by Yto Barrada and Ala Younis, suggest that the unwritten future need not be as unjust or limiting as the erased past

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Douglas Murphy’s examination of former mayor Boris Johnson’s botched projects and Iain Sinclair’s London lament chart a battle for the city’s soul

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