Roger KeenThe Tale of Two CoversI created this photomontage at art college back in the1970s, as an attempt to convey the surreal, discombobulating weirdness of several LSD…4 min read·Mar 28, 2023----
Roger KeenAvatar: The Way of ClichéThe 2009 film’s innovative Fusion Camera System 3D was enchanting in a notably ‘psychedelic’ way, but does the sequel build on this trend…?7 min read·Jan 1, 2023----
Roger KeenIan McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty ChairLessons is Ian McEwan’s best novel since Atonement, a true late major work, perhaps a late masterpiece. He handles an armada of complex…21 min read·Dec 8, 2022----
Roger KeenThe Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented SelfIn the 2020s, when streaming has turned the TV serial into a seamless whole, digestible like a novel, it prompts us to pinpoint yet another…8 min read·Nov 29, 2022----
Roger KeenSinging Detective GoggleboxImagine if there were a really intellectual Gogglebox-style discussion of a TV programme…4 min read·Jul 23, 2019----
Roger KeenWilliam S. Burroughs: A LifeWhat follows is an extended review of Barry Miles’s biography: William S. Burroughs: A Life (American title: Call Me Burroughs: A Life)…11 min read·Oct 3, 2018--1--1
Roger KeenAutofictionalisation Personality DisorderWhen I was a child in the 1960s I read extensively – from classic set authors such as Shakespeare and Dickens to the adventure and escapist…12 min read·Nov 5, 2014----
Roger KeenThe Cult of the NovelA Literary Context For Contemporary Entheogenic Visionary Experience5 min read·Sep 30, 2014----
Roger KeenTen Amazing Facts About William BurroughsBurroughs’ grandfather, William Burroughs I, was another madcap genius who, in the 1880s, invented the first ever automated adding machine…7 min read·Sep 26, 2014----
Roger KeenOCD & Schrödinger’s CatI have a friend whom I shall call Brian who suffers from obsessive-checking syndrome. He will stare at a water tap or an electrical switch…5 min read·Sep 1, 2014----