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Aldous Huxley
Many would regard Brave New World as Huxley's most important novel. This may or may not be true, though it is undoubtedly his most popular....
Wolfgang Flur
Electronic music owes an incomprehensible debt of gratitude to Kraftwerk. Four electrotechpopmeisters from the Rhineland took their vision of music...
Graham Hancock
Mars has always been a source of fascination, provocation and speculation within astronomical and scientific fields, but the scant information that...
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
The undeveloped backwater that has escaped infestation by jaded backpackers and tedious soul-searching students clutching the contents of their...
Patrick Neate
Part travelogue, part cultural history, Where You're At sees the journalist and novelist Patrick Neate undertake a journey into hip hop's...
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...
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
The first six chapters of From Hell were originally published in the excellent (and eventually banned) small press horror comic...
Paul Auster
Not, as one might expect, the original metaphysical detective story of 1985 (which is old news – but good news). Instead, the tale translated,...
Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan is something of an oddity and, given that it comes from the pen of a double Booker prize-winning novelist, a bit of a...
Ian McEwan
Reason and unreason collide in McEwan's fine new thriller.
Jonathon Safran Foer
Difficult second novel syndrome? This sophomore effort isn't quite the great American novel, but Foer should keep trying...
Rupert Thomson
Thompson is widely acknowledged as one of England’s leading lights in the world of literature and his latest book goes all the way towards...
Sarah Churchwell
Find out if Marilyn Monroe was 'truly schizoid'.
Alex Garland
A young man wakes from a coma to a world that resembles the one he knows, but which differs from it in nightmarish ways. Alex Garland's strange new...
Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam's second novel Maps For Lost Lovers has just won a place on the Booker Prize longlist, after more than 10 years in the...
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....
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