The Wire, Issue 495, May 2025

This issue includes "The cut-up experiments of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin teach Surgeon how to hack into narratives of power", p. 106.

Published in London, England by The Wire in May, 2025.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg, Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US). A promotional sheet for the issue was included by Jeffrey as a gift.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Raven 20250500TWIR.0.495

Selected Contents: 

• Letters
• Josh Feola: "Global Ear: Copenhagen" (essay)
• Philip Watson: "Unlimited Editions: Greyfade" (essay)
• Seymour Wright: "The Inner Sleeve" (review of Lxgrin by Anne Gillis)
• Hugh Morris: "Against the Grain" (essay)
• Daryl Worthington: "Trấn Uy Đưc" (interview)
• Lucy Thraves: "MIC" (interview)
• Stewart Smith: "Laura Cocks" (interview)
• Alvin Curran and Julian Crowley: "Invisible Jukebox" (interview/reviews)
• Chiara Alessandri: photographs
• Misha Farrant and Nilotpal Das: "Bios Contrast" (interview)
• Akshay Mahajan: photograph
• Daniel Spicer and Joke Lanz: "Moving the Needle" (interview)
• Balász Fromm: photographs
• Abi Bliss and Ailie Ormston: "Beyond the Frame" (interview)
• Olly Geary: photography
• Francis Gooding and Satch Hoyt: "Breath of Life" (interview) 
• Muhammad Salah: photographs
• Chal Ravens and Aya: "Breaking the Spell" (interview)
• Clara Nebeling: photographs
• music reviews
• book reviews
• film reviews
• festival/concert reviews
• exhibition reviews
• Surgeon: "Epiphanies :The cut-up experiments of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin teach Surgeon how to hack into narratives of power" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher/Director: Tony Herrington
• Editor: Emily Bick
• Deputy Editor: Joseph Stannard
• Sub Editor: Derek Walmsley
• et al