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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...
Sarah Churchwell
Find out if Marilyn Monroe was 'truly schizoid'.
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.
Hari Kunzru
Does Hari Kunzru get you shelf-cred? His latest book, Transmission, oozes edgy cool.
Christine Gledhill
British silent film, since the introduction of sound, has endured a dismal reputation. Kevin Brownlow wrote that British silents never advanced...
Andrew Sean Greer
It's 1871, and Max Tivoli enters the world, wrinkled and withered, like any normal baby first blinking their way out of the womb. But max is...
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...
Lynda Schuster
As memories of apartheid recede and South Africa becomes an increasingly stable democracy, books such as this one become ever more important. A...
Jose Saramago
Anytime a novelist prefaces his book with a quotation from The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy alarm bells should ring and the reader...
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...
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...
Sam Kashner
What would you give to learn how to write at the feet of your greatest literary heroes? Sam Kashner was an aspiring poet who, to the bafflement of...
Virginia Woolf
The London Scene is a beautifully packaged sequence of six essays that Virginia Woolf composed for Good Housekeeping magazine in...
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....
Philip Hensher
The Fit is a perplexing little novel. It's a complete contrast to Philip Hensher's previous effort, The Mulberry Empire, a...
Susanna Clarke
It's the first decade of the 19th century, and societies of theoretical magic exist all over England – studying the history of magic with...
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