Vanishing Map

Stephen Barber is a noted cultural historian and author of many acclaimed books, including Burning World, the best-selling biography of Edmund White, Tokyo Vertigo, Caligula: Divine Carnage, Projected Cities, Jean Genet, Fragments of the European City and two studies of Antonin Artaud, The Screaming Body and Blows And Bombs. His writing has won many awards and been translated into Japanese, French, German and Italian. Formerly Professor of Digital Media at the University of Tokyo, he is currently Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University.

• * Part One: Los Angeles: City of Angels, City of Devils * Part Two: The Heart of Europe * Part Three: Tokyo: City of Devils, City of Angels

'Stephen Barber is an extraordinary explorer into the history and memory of Europe, and here he takes the reader on an exhilarating journey.'Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and The Flaneur: a journey through the paradoxes of Paris'The Vanishing Map is a weird and wonderful rumination on a bloody past, an oblivious present, and a future collapsing into banality.'3am MagazineFrom reviews of previous work'Is there a new candidate for most dangerous man in Europe? The cultural historian Stephen Barber puts himself in the frame.' The Independent'A writer who carries the city within him compelling, ambitious and genre-busting.' Literary Review of Canada'Exhilarating and disquieting.' The Sunday Times'Stephen Barber is a cultural historian of real distinction brilliant and often profound.' The Independent on Sunday'Brilliant, profound and provocative.' The Times 'Barber's fluid prose demonstrates intense research.' Publishers' Weekly