Books by Brian Dillon
“It’s a collection of short passages from writers like Diderot, Baudrillard, Le Corbusier, Derrida, Solnit, Calvino, Macaulay. Iain Sinclair is in there, and the artist Tacita Dean. Basically, if you are interested in this idea of ruinous or chaotic landscapes, and how that ties in with the ideas of entropy, the passage of time, and aesthetics, this book has done an amazing job of filleting dozens of texts for key components. You can buy this book and feel well-read at the end of it.” Read more...
The best books on Abandoned Places
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Tormented Hope
by Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon is very good at relating things to the personal. He looks with enormous insight at the idea of hypochondria
Interviews where books by Brian Dillon were recommended
The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction, recommended by Louise Foxcroft
Historian and author Louise Foxcroft prescribes reading on medical practices of the past, from treatments of madness and non-existent disease, to drug use and the origins of hypochondria.
The best books on Abandoned Places, recommended by Cal Flyn
Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn selects five of the best books on abandoned places, including a cultural history of ruins, an account of natural recovery in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, plus two unsettling works of science fiction. Her own book, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape, is out now.
