Words by Kevin Danson In a room with a cosy number of people, Brian Turner took the stage (or, rather, perched on the edge of a desk) with a welcoming natural ease. I have no idea why I ended up plonking myself on the otherwise deserted front row, making myself an easy target for this trained…

Words by Kevin Danson     A couple of weeks ago I found myself sat in Cinema 2 of Cornerhouse Manchester before one of the best-known authorities on design and popular culture, Stephen Bayley. As founding director of the design museum, a former creative director of the Millennium Dome and contributor to a number of…

Words By Kim Hutson Browsing an old notepad recently I discovered a list I had made as a depressed data-inputting literature graduate. It was a list of things I would like to do: –        Work in a library, museum or university –        Go travelling –        MA in Creative Writing (Ha!) I applied for hundreds, if…

Neil Harrison speaks to Open Eye Gallery‘s Artistic Director, Lorenzo Fusi, ahead of the forthcoming exhibition Tim Hetherington: You Never See Them Like This. From Infidel by Tim Hetherington It is an enduring truth about the nature of war that human stories are routinely overlooked in favour of an often-intangible grand narrative. Now, one war…

Words by Jason Cooke As part of the Manchester Literature Festival, author David Peace paid visit to the National Football Museum, Manchester, to talk to Hacienda legend, Dave Haslam, on stage about his latest novel, Red or Dead. Red or Dead follows the life of Liverpool FC managerial legend, Bill Shankly. Dave Haslam took to…