‘The Carbon Arc’ (Vanguard Editions, 2025)

‘I always want the audience to outguess me, and then I double-cross them.’ 
​—Buster Keaton

A new collection of 16 essays on Cinema by a spectacular array of film reviewers, essayists, interdisciplinary writers, novelists and academics. 

Marina Benjamin / Jonathan Coe / Jude Cook / Rob Doyle / Wendy Erskine / Gareth Evans / Maria Fusco / David Gaffney / Karen Krizanovich / Sam Mills / Nicholas Royle / David Savill / Richard Skinner / Christiana Spens / Christina Tudor-Sideri / Anne Worthington

Keywords: film criticism, creative journalism, comparative essay, memoir, intertextuality.

Coming Summer 2025!