Features
Thursday, March 10 2011
The Age We're At: An Interview with Elbow
Elbow had been labouring at their craft for years, before making the breakthrough of a lifetime with 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid. Now, Elbow's Pete Turner talks about the success of their last album and how they set about following it with their new release, Build a Rocket Boys!.
Thursday, August 5 2010
'One Route for the Whole World to Go On': An Interview With Balkan Beat Box
As Balkan Beat Box releases their third album, their master of melodies Ori Kaplan talks about writing, recording and where he stands on the 'Balkan Beats' scene.
Columns
Friday, December 24 2010
Clash City
Marcus Gray's book about London Calling inspires a journey around the London of the Clash. There's a huge sense of disaffection in this city, a feeling that the government protects only the rich and will leave the poor to suffer the recession – it’s like 1979 all over again, and London is still calling, calling out into an atmosphere of impending catastrophe.
Monday, March 8 2010
The German Issue: Still Straddling the Berlin Wall
The German Issue provides us with a time capsule from a very different era, but so much of its content remains pertinent.
Reviews
Thursday, May 10 2012
Where the Bodies Are: David Harvey's 'Rebel Cities'
As the world passes the tipping point where more than half of its population now lives in urban areas, David Harvey condemns the idea of the capitalist machine.
Thursday, April 19 2012
Self Referentiality in 'The Quiddity of Will Self'
It’s a bold move to centre a book on a living writer who is a clear influence on the novel in which he is invoked. So is this a successful display of intertextual dexterity, or an awkwardly intellectual piece of fan fiction?
Wednesday, February 29 2012
'Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room' Is a Departure for Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer casts a typically idiosyncratic eye over Tarkovsky's Stalker and ends up illuminating more about himself than about the film.
Monday, September 26 2011
'C' Speaks in Codes; Codes Which Might Have Several Meanings
C is not only a novel about communication, but also a fine example of the novel as a means of communication.
Friday, June 3 2011
'Goodbye Sarajevo' Is a Valuable Account and an Extraordinary Story
The atrocities and absurdities of the war in Bosnia are remembered in this unique account from two writers who witnessed the event from very different perspectives.
