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Roger Keen

Roger Keen

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Feb 4

Ian McEwan and the Search for Profundity:

Musings on the 2025 Novel, What We Can Know

Ian McEwan and the Search for Profundity:

Roger Keen

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Mar 28, 2023

The Tale of Two Covers

I created this photomontage at art college back in the1970s, as an attempt to convey the surreal, discombobulating weirdness of several LSD…

The Tale of Two Covers

Roger Keen

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Jan 1, 2023

Avatar: The Way of Cliché

The 2009 film’s innovative Fusion Camera System 3D was enchanting in a notably ‘psychedelic’ way, but does the sequel build on this trend…?

Roger Keen

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Dec 8, 2022

Ian McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty Chair

Lessons is Ian McEwan’s best novel since Atonement, a true late major work, perhaps a late masterpiece. He handles an armada of complex…

Ian McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty Chair

Roger Keen

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Nov 29, 2022

The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self

In the 2020s, when streaming has turned the TV serial into a seamless whole, digestible like a novel, it prompts us to pinpoint yet another…

The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self

Roger Keen

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Jul 23, 2019

Singing Detective Gogglebox

Imagine if there were a really intellectual Gogglebox-style discussion of a TV programme…

Singing Detective Gogglebox

Roger Keen

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Oct 3, 2018

William S. Burroughs: A Life

What follows is an extended review of Barry Miles’s biography: William S. Burroughs: A Life (American title: Call Me Burroughs: A Life)…

William S. Burroughs: A Life

Roger Keen

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Nov 5, 2014

Autofictionalisation Personality Disorder

When I was a child in the 1960s I read extensively – from classic set authors such as Shakespeare and Dickens to the adventure and escapist…

Autofictionalisation Personality Disorder

Roger Keen

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Sep 30, 2014

The Cult of the Novel

A Literary Context For Contemporary Entheogenic Visionary Experience

The Cult of the Novel

Roger Keen

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Sep 26, 2014

Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs

Burroughs’ grandfather, William Burroughs I, was another madcap genius who, in the 1880s, invented the first ever automated adding machine…

Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs

Roger Keen

Roger Keen

Writer, filmmaker and film critic. Author of The Empty Chair, Literary Stalker and The Mad Artist: Psychonautic Adventures in the 1970s | www.rogerkeen.com |

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