Berfrois

Beat

Columbia and the Beats

Slideshow:

Columbia and the Beats

Zonkers

Zonkers

Jack Kerouac Shooting Pool

Video:

Jack Kerouac Shooting Pool

What Graves Have You Seen?

Video:

What Graves Have You Seen?

To play the young Ginsberg…

Book excerpt:

‘Bob Dylan in America’ by Sean Wilentz

Ginsberg, Beat photographer

‘Cassady walked these tracks that February night in 1968. He’d stumbled into a wedding party in a nearby village…’

Slideshow:

Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Memories

‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti
Poem: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti
‘Kushinagar’ by Joe Sacco
Graphic novel excerpt: ‘Kushinagar’ by Joe Sacco
An Art Critic in Africa
Photo essay: An Art Critic in Africa
‘The Spoiler’ by Annalena McAfee
Book excerpt: ‘The Spoiler’ by Annalena McAfee
‘The Medicine and the Meat’ and ‘A. Square’s Advice for Three Dimensional Shapes’ by John Freeman
Poems: ‘The Medicine and the Meat’ and ‘A. Square’s Advice for Three Dimensional Shapes’ by John Freeman
Early Torture in the Americas
Image gallery: Early Torture in the Americas