SOURCE: “Modernity and Its Discontents,” in New Statesman, May 10, 1999, pp. 41–2.
In the following review of Iain Sinclair's Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-Mortem on J. G. Ballard's “Trajectory of Fate,” Gray discusses Ballard's literary significance and the major themes and disturbing cultural observations in his work.
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