Will Wiles is the author of several novels. His most recent book is The Anechoic Chamber, and other weird tales (Salt Publishing).
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future
NASA has published its latest plans for a moon base, but has it forgotten to make low-gravity life seem appealing?
Kane Parsons’s debut horror film takes an internet meme about unsettling, utterly mundane spaces and gives it a gothic twist
Will Wiles applauds the witty cartoons of Alan Dunn, a keen observer of architectural modishness
Mackenzie Crook’s BBC sitcom perfectly conveys the contradictions of a realm where nothing much is allowed in public and anything can happen in private
When the complex was first proposed in the late 1950s, it was intended as a concrete expression of US soft power and its designer, Edward Durell Stone, was one of the most in-demand architects in the United States
The dystopian series asks whether creativity has any value when everyone thinks the same way
The History Faculty Building in Cambridge, completed in 1968, is hard to love. But love it Will Wiles, a former student, does
The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection
