Author Archives: John Michael McCloughlin

John Michael McCloughlin

John Michael McCloughlin was a pen name of British novelist, playwright, painter, essayist, and orator Jonathan Bowden, 1962–2012.

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Jonathan Bowden’s Apocalypse TV

John Michael McCloughlin

1,359 words

Jonathan Bowden
Apocalypse TV
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007

Apocalypse TV was published in August 2007 by the Spinning Top Club. It runs to 239 pages and contains a pencil sketch of the author in the frontispiece or prelims by Michael Woodbridge. It is quite different to the other books which I have reviewed by this author — novels and plays, etc. . . . — by being directly non-fictional in character. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Apocalypse TV, art, book reviews, education, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Michael McCloughlin, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, modern art, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Al-Qa’eda MOTH

John Michael McCloughlin

1,033 words

Jonathan Bowden
Al-Qa’eda MOTH
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008

This picaresque novel was published in August 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in England. The novel is a slightly unusual departure for Bowden in that it is a Western — albeit of a spectral or ghoulish sort. It could be best described as a supernatural western crossed with an intellectual treatise.

Jonathan Bowden’s Kratos

John Michael McCloughlin

907 words

Jonathan Bowden
Kratos and Other Works
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008

The book Kratos was published by the Spinning Top Club in very early 2008. It extends over 157 pages. It consists of four independent stories of around the same length.

Jonathan Bowden’s The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity

John Michael McCloughlin

903 words

Jonathan Bowden
The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008

This book was published in 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in London. It is a Gothic or picaresque novel of 178 pages. This book can be considered in two basic ways. The first revolves around purely literary considerations. These have to do with an external or diachronic quality which Wyndham Lewis first explicated in the ’20s or before. Read more …

Published: October 3, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s A Ballet of Wasps

John Michael McCloughlin

1,078 words

Jonathan Bowden
A Ballet of Wasps
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008

A Ballet of Wasps is a collection of four short stories and a play. Read more …

Published: September 27, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Ballet of Wasps, book reviews, horror, John Michael McClouglin, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, Savitri Devi | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Louisiana Half-Face

John Michael McCloughlin

872 words

Jonathan Bowden
Louisiana Half-Face
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2010

Louisiana Half-Face was published in the first half of 2010. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, John Michael McClouglin, Jonathan Bowden, literature, Louisiana Half-Face, North American New Right, originals, Savitri Devi | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Lilith Before Eve

John Michael McCloughlin

895 words

Jonathan Bowden
Lilith Before Eve
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009

This book contains four plays which are more likely to be read than played in the theater. Read more …

Published: September 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, drama, John Michael McCloughlin, Jonathan Bowden, Lilith Before Eve, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Goodbye, Homunculus!

John Michael McCloughlin

1,018 words

Jonathan Bowden
Goodbye, Homunculus!
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009

This volume consists of four stories of approximately equal length. Their titles are “Goodbye, Homunculus!,” “Iron Breath,” “Armageddon’s Village,” and “Noughts are Crosses.” Each one of them deals with extreme takes on the imagination, and the entire book teeters on the edge of various genres. Read more …