I’ve read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I’m not really a Ballardian. I’ve met Ballardians, and I know when I can’t compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: Vermilion ...

Once a year on the first Monday of May, the carpeted steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (“the Met”) become home to the most scrutinized costume party of the year. The dress code to end all ...

In the realms of imaginative fiction, few have been as far “out there” for as long as J.G. Ballard. Yet the disturbing, warped realms conjured up in his 19 novels and myriad short stories have always ...

Ben Wheatley will direct a film version of JG Ballard's novel High Rise. The A Field in England and Sightseers filmmaker has teamed up with Film4, Hanway and producer Jeremy Thomas on the project. Amy ...

The Guardian newspaper has reported that author J.G. Ballard has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. His agent, Margaret Hanbury, announced that Ballard died this morning. He was 78.

Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006. He had been ill "for several years," his agent Margaret Hanbury said in a statement announcing his death on Sunday, but she did not give the cause ...