On the New York and LA Times bestseller lists, Damien Echols’ Life After Death memoir documents how his survival on death row was as improbable as the case that put him there. Alex Burrows asked how he lived through the worst that humanity could throw at him
Set in the grimy pre-unification Berlin of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubauten, Christiane F. is a stylish, low-budget tale of teen heroin addicts with a cult following – now at risk of being commodified into an idea rather than anything real, finds David Robb