Martin Billheimer

Martin Billheimer is the author of Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters of the Gilded Age. He lives in Chicago.

The Secret Behind the Secret

The Lobster Crawl to Revolution

Puppet Akutagawa

Under the Sigh of Phantom Commerce

Forsaken Identities: Brujes-la-Morte

His Masters’ Vice: Jimmy Savile’s England

Modernity: Never Shutting Up

Goodbye, Utopia

Cassandra and Her Complex: NATO’s New Literary Project

Idiocy in Theory and Practice

The Strange Case of Andrew Roberts and the Liberal Anglosphere

At the Cusp: Marcel Brion

There is No Vacation Anymore

In the American Snake Oil Stain

Palpitations of the Pulps

“The Cops & the Klan Go Hand in Hand!”

The Other Gorgon: Surrealism & Photography, c. 1929

The Yiddish Art of Suicide

Knight Crawlers

In Memoriam X 7: The Late, Late al Baghdadi

Oulipo Goes to Japan

To Vanish Jack the Ripper

A Clerk’s Guide to the Unspectacular, 1914

Sylvan Shock Theater

The Gothic and the Idea of a ‘Real Elite’

Closed Shave: T. O. Bobe, the Girl and Curl

Fourth Shift Chicago

Night Life of the Odd: Jean Ray’s Whisky Tales

American Advertising Cookbooks and Our Sons of Bitches

Remedios Varo: A Cure for Magic Out of Chance

Late Year’s Hits for the Hanging Sock

The Bitter Tears of Portland Stone

Here Cochise Everywhere

La Grand’Route: Waiting for the Bus

White & Red Aunts, Capital Gains and Anarchy

Resident Aliens: “The Brickeaters,” a Novel by The Residents

Childhood, Ferocious Sleep

Ivan Albright’s Eyes

Frankenstein’s Burden

Withering Highs: Hashish at the Fin de Siècle

The Devil in the Plow, Clock & Book

Haunting Ourselves

The Grin in the Fog

Beyond the 120 Days of the Silicon Valley Dolls

The General’s Tongue

Assassins of the Image: the CIA as Cultural Gatekeeper

The Specter of Preservation

Homer’s Iliad, la primera nota roja

Landscape War: Vegas and District

The Phantom of Justice in Indian Country