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Stuart Walton
In recent times of drugs seasons, exclusives and general moral panic, Stuart Walton delivers a thought-provoking and highly readable account of 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....
Jonathan Margolis
In his socio-anthropological history of man's insatiable appetite for orgasm, Jonathan Margolis evaluates centuries of rather dry academic...
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein puts consumerism under the spotlight for a close examination of over-the-counter-culture and anti-corporate subversion.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is clumsy, awkward and often soporifically dull. So why does it feel this mysteriously good?
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...
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...
Henry Hemming
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
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...
Nell Freudenberger
'Travelling is for people who don't know how to be happy,' observes a character in the second story of Nell Freudenberger's collection. It's a neat...
William Eckersley and Alexander Shields
Self-publishers William Eckersley and Alexander Shields reveal the capital’s ragged edges and stale secrets.
Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton
Everyone’s a DJ now. Although they may only ever have once played to a bunch of disinterested drinkers in some grotty bar, practically...
Wolfgang Flur
Electronic music owes an incomprehensible debt of gratitude to Kraftwerk. Four electrotechpopmeisters from the Rhineland took their vision of music...
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...
Kevin Jackson
Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) has long been recognised as one of Britain's finest filmmakers on the basis of his wartime documentaries, which, for...
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...
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