The accessions department is off visiting a monastery today, so the following report has been prepared in advance. Errors and omissions &c &c.

Classic goth seems to be having its, ah, moment in the sun right now. The Cathi Unsworth has some good reviews, and promises to be rather better edited than John Robb’s recent opus, the acquisition of which was proscribed on the basis of an abysmal excerpt published at a much-loved website. Andrews’s Paint My Name… has been out for a while, but institutional interest in The Sisters of Mercy has been consistent for many years, and this one came with the recommendation of Paul Watson, who is a source to be trusted on such matters.
The collection of interviews with William Gibson should need no justification, but it has been acquired with an eye to an institutional project in its most formative stages. Sarlo’s biography of Borges, meanwhile, is hoped to be rather less obsessed with linking the man’s writings to the romantic minutiae of his life than the thicker and better known offering by Edwin Williamson.
Chandler’s introduction to semiotics is intended to reduce the amount of shameless bluffing on the topic the institution has been known to undertake.
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