The late 19th century had Oscar Wilde to challenge its pieties. Our closest equivalent is British novelist J.G. Ballard, iconoclastic author of “Crash,” “High Rise” and “Empire of the Sun.” • “Sex ...

During my school years, one of my favorite novels was “Empire of the Sun” by British author J.G. Ballard. I picked it up again after last month’s death of Ballard at age 78 from prostate cancer. I ...

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It teeters continually between psychodrama and parody, reveling in feelings that are simultaneously heightened and deflated, serving up characters who veer in their behavior from the operatic to the ...

J.G. Ballard's death this past weekend is sad news for many reasons, among them that the most lasting image he will have left of himself was as a child. I was never that interested in his bleak, ...

British author J.G. Ballard, whose vivid portrayal of his childhood imprisonment in wartime Shanghai was adapted into a hit Hollywood film, died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. By Reuters, The ...

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 ...

The search for Ballardian Shanghai -- local traces of British writer J.G. Ballard, that is – begins on the pavement outside XinYue Club to confused stares from the restaurant's waiters. Ignoring the ...

In the early '70s, British author J.G. Ballard concluded a trilogy of urban novels (Crash and Concrete Island were the first two) with the chillingly prescient High-Rise, a vision of domestic utopia ...

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 ...

Author J.G. Ballard, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp whose vision was so dark and distinctive it was labeled "Ballardian" and who reached a wide audience with the autobiographical "Empire of the ...

British author J.G. Ballard, whose vivid portrayal of his childhood imprisonment in wartime Shanghai was adapted into a hit Hollywood film, died on Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. By Reuters, The ...