“Two Assassins is a unique collaborative work, part detective story, part literary scholarship, part historical research, and part personal memoir that seeks to unravel a mystery: what the 11th-century Persian master of the Assassins, Hassan Sabbah, really meant for William Burroughs. Oliver Harris sheds light on the many untold backstories and dark textual secrets behind Burroughs’ invocations of Hassan Sabbah…

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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann‘s short life and career came to an abrupt end when he was hit by a car and catapulted into the air on Westbourne Grove, London in 1975. Crossing the road to a pub on the opposite side he had forgotten that people drive on the left in the UK. By that time Brinkmann’s star as a poet, writer, and translator had been rising in Germany and his work had won him both critical acclaim and a fellowship at Villa Massimo in Rome. Brinkmann had visited London….

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When William Burroughs mailed Alan Ansen a copy of Naked Lunch on its publication in 1959, he dedicated it to “one of the few who understood Naked Lunch before I did”, testifying to the unique role Ansen played from the start of Burroughs’s career as collaborator, promoter, critic, friend and author of three essays written across three decades. A Burroughs Triptych pieces together for the first time the backstory to Ansen’s three…

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