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Lux Non Aeterna: The Fleeting Light Works Of Richard Wright

2009's Turner Prize winner floods Glasgow's Modern Institute with irridescence
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Because You’re Worth It: Jake Chapman Rectifies George Orwell

With his brother Dinos, Jake Chapman has consistently offered up visions of hell. Now, in this new re-telling of 1984 for Urbanomic Press, he turns his attention to the hell of contemporary society
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Welcome To Dystopia: Dorian Lynskey’s 1984 Playlist

Dorian Lynskey's recent book The Ministry of Truth looks at the culture and context of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ahead of a talk about the book this coming Tuesday at Waterstones, Covent Garden, he picks out ten of the best examples of pop songs adhering to that nebulous genre, 'George Orwave'
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Vagrant Theory: On Jeff Ferrell’s Drift

David Anderson explores the "drift dialectics" in Jeff Ferrell's account of "Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge"
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Brutalist Truths: Owen Hatherley Interviewed In Ten Songs

Architecture writer, Pulp essayist and ‘guilty nostalgist’ Owen Hatherley talks to Karen Shook about retro tat, George Orwell’s dreams, Wilfred Owen’s hair, Ken Loach’s Hovis-advert socialism and that bloody poster
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A Conversation With Ceri Levy & Ralph Steadman

In the first of a two part series celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, film-maker Ceri Levy and artist Ralph Steadman lead Kiran Acharya on a wayward interview with detours into art, conservation and memories of Hunter S Thompson
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Before And After The Grass Arena: John Healy Interviewed

Austin Collings chats with author, chess master, ex-prisoner and former boxing champion John Healy, the subject of new documentary Barbaric Genius, which opens this weekend. Chess photograph by Glyn Roberts

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