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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 — ...

On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen In an exclusive ...

Back around 1980, I was in London, staying with a friend in Camden Town and visiting used-book shops whenever I could. On one frosty morning, I found myself on Farringdon Road, where a rubicund ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...