format – The Drouth

30th April 2026

Published by TheDrouth

A DOUBLE ACT, A CLASS ACT: Housing and Film as things in a Kingdom by Johnny Rodger

The story of British housing as seen through film is one of ubiquitous and enduring class apartheid. Yet have the filmmakers themselves been immune from that social ill? Johnny Rodger gives an intersectional reading of housing and film with lots to watch as well as read.

19th April 2026

Published by TheDrouth

ALL THE COPPER IN PERU by Michael Washburn

A story about contracts and commodities - all too resonant of the contemporary realities of geopolitics and the multinational corporate interests - New York prize-winning novelist and short story-writer, Michael Washburn, details the momentum of a dirty business.

19th April 2026

Published by TheDrouth

From a stage set to setting the stage : the sources and the evolution of motifs in Dali’s early surrealist oeuvre, by Dmitriy Soliterman

A sustained, penetrating and profound study of the forms in Dali's early work and informed deduction and speculation on their provenance by art critic Dmitriy Soliterman.