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William Burroughs

August 2023

  • Patti Smith & William S. Burroughs, The Bunker, September 20, 1995 (REF# 2290 71624) ©Allen Ginsberg, courtesy of FaheyKlein Gallery, Los Angeles

    Beats connection: Allen Ginsberg’s inner circle – in pictures

    A new exhibition of the Howl author’s intimate personal photographs finds him hanging out with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Patti Smith

December 2022

  • Benicio Del Toro and Johnny Depp in the film version of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about hellraisers

    The full facts about debauched lives do not make happy reading, but authors from Robert Louis Stevenson to Hunter S Thompson offer thrilling reading without concealing the cost

February 2022

  • Olivia Laing … ‘I was seduced by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester.’

    The books of my life
    Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’

  • ‘The first art object to be seen with the eyes closed’Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, part of an exhibition in Barcelona in 2018.

    Dreamachine, the psychedelic contraption hoping to blow British minds

November 2020

  • William Burroughs.

    Book of the day
    William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll by Casey Rae review – countercultural hero

    From Bowie to Cobain, heavy metal to Blade Runner – how the Naked Lunch author changed pop culture

November 2019

  • William Burroughs, Blade Runner poster

    Books blog
    Ever heard of Blade Runner: A Movie? No, not that one

  • Spectral Legion [Ed Cassidy] by Ira Cohen

    'Like looking through butterfly wings': Ira Cohen's Mylar chamber – in pictures

August 2019

  • Jessie Burton

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: can you recommend novels and nonfiction books about cats?

    There are so many literary felines to savour

February 2019

  • Paul Natkin Archive<br>William S. Burroughs on 3/25/81 in Chicago, Il. (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage)

    Books blog
    Tell us: what books are the most shocking or disturbing?

    On this week’s Guardian books podcast, we discuss the books that we struggled to finish or even had to hide because they were so shocking – what are yours and why?

December 2018

  • Suzanne Moore

    Guilty pleasures? For women that’s most of our culture

    Suzanne Moore
    From John Martyn and Lars von Trier to Woody Allen and William Burroughs, women must deal with ‘problematic’ artists on a daily basis

October 2018

  • William Burroughs in 1960.

    After Burroughs and Beckett: opening up experimental fiction beyond old white men

    A poet who samples hip-hop and household appliances, a Hansel and Gretel for the #MeToo era ... the avant garde is more diverse and engaged than ever

September 2018

  • American writer William Seward Burroughs

    From the Guardian archive
    The elusive William Burroughs – archive, 1965

    10 September 1965 For a year now, Terry Coleman has been trying, in vain, to meet the Naked Lunch author

March 2018

  • People on street of Tangier, Morocco

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books based in Tangier

    From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city

December 2017

  • (from l) Mark Edel-Hunt (Daniel Quinn), and Jack Tarlton (Stillman) in City of Glass by 59 Productions, adapted from Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 experimental thrillers

    In these risk-taking novels, by writers from Paul Auster to William Burroughs, watching the formal adventures can be as thrilling as the detective work

May 2017

  • William Burroughs and Jane Austen.

    Books blog
    Clinton and Patterson or Burroughs and Austen? Who'd be the best writing duo?

    Bill Clinton and James Patterson are collaborating, but who do we really want to team up? Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman? What if Emma’s author cut up with Mr Naked Lunch?

December 2016

  • William Burroughs and Howard Brookner in Uncle Howard.

    Uncle Howard review – an elegy to a lost generation and the New York art scene

    Aaron Brookner’s melancholy doc about his dead uncle – an artistic collaborator of William Burroughs and Jim Jarmusch – recaptures a vanished era

October 2016

  • Shakespeare and Company

    Shakespeare and Company: a 'socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore' – in pictures

    An English-language bookshop founded by George Whitman on the banks of the Seine in Paris has been hosting writers and selling the occasional book for 65 years. Krista Halverson explores the history of a countercultural institution and the legacy of Sylvia Beach

July 2016

  • William Burroughs in 1981.

    How William Burroughs's drug experiments helped neurology research

  • Untitled Brion Gysin William Burroughs

    Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs: celebrating the Beats in Paris

June 2016

  • Beat Generation exhibition, Paris, France - 21 Jun 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ISA HARSIN/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock (5735458t) Liliane Lijn - Time Forces Split 1965 Beat Generation exhibition, Paris, France - 21 Jun 2016 The Beat Generation was born with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who met at New York Columbia University in 1944. The exhibition shows the Beat movement in a widened horizon, with artists plastics coming from California: Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, George Herms. There is also a literary important place in the movement, associating the poetry spoken with the jazz, with American black poetry: LeRoi Jones, Bob Kaufman. Photography, and portraits, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Robert Frank (The Americans, From the busa) and the cinema with Christopher MacLaine, Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice

    Artist Liliane Lijn: 'It was William Burroughs who warned me off drugs'

    Long before Cards Against Humanity, Lijn was playing her Power Game with Derek Jarman and taking meetings at the Beat Hotel. As her super smart word-art goes back on show in London and Paris, she talks politics, poetry and pot
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