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Jonathon Safran Foer
Difficult second novel syndrome? This sophomore effort isn't quite the great American novel, but Foer should keep trying...
Jonathan Margolis
In his socio-anthropological history of man's insatiable appetite for orgasm, Jonathan Margolis evaluates centuries of rather dry academic...
John F Swzed
This monumental biography was published last year, seven years after the death of Sun Ra at the age of 79. Monumental is an appropriate word to...
James Kelman
If you fancy a rendezvous with a half-cut Begbie, check out the latest Scottish rant novel from Booker prize-shorlisted novelist James Kelman.
Ian McEwan
Reason and unreason collide in McEwan's fine new thriller.
Henry Hemming
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
Hari Kunzru
Does Hari Kunzru get you shelf-cred? His latest book, Transmission, oozes edgy cool.
Greg Bear
As foot and mouth ravages the animal population of this country, so one naturally takes a renewed interest in all things viral, cellular and...
Graham Hancock
Mars has always been a source of fascination, provocation and speculation within astronomical and scientific fields, but the scant information that...
Edited by Peter Shapiro
In 1998 a documentary feature film was released by a small production company in New York that quickly became the most essential viewing for anyone...
Edited by Ian Jack
From handling rats on Werner Herzog's Nosferatu to a peek into Lana Turner's bedroom, the new Granta collection (somewhat heavily titled...
David Katz
Recently published in paperback, this excellent collection of interviews by reggae historian David Katz is a significant step in the archiving of...
David Foster Wallace
There is something about David Foster Wallace's new collection of short stories, Oblivion, that is irritating to the point of distraction....
Dan Sicko
Techno Rebels represents the first concerted attempt to relate the history of techno music, a task author Dan Sicko, a Detroit native,...
Christopher Ross
Self-styled Underground philosopher Christopher Ross tells it like it is, through the eyes of a bottom-rung station assistant at Oxford Circus,...
Christine Gledhill
British silent film, since the introduction of sound, has endured a dismal reputation. Kevin Brownlow wrote that British silents never advanced...
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