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Aliens in Anglia: The Pasts and Futures of Central European Émigré Composers in Britain

From Hammer Horror to kitsch to electronic music, to coincide with the publication of his new book The Alienation Effect, Owen Hatherley explores the neglected history of European music in Britain
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Fuel R 30: Inside The Design-Focused Independent Publisher

For thirty years, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell of Fuel Design have been publishing strange and unusual books about sweet wrappers and Soviet bus stops by the likes of Jonny Trunk, Owen Hatherley, Tracey Emin, and the Chapman Brothers. They talk to Nilgin Yusuf about plane crashes and independent publishing
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One Tony Wilson Place: Paul Morley Interviewed

As Faber publishes his new book about the broadcaster and Factory records boss, *From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson*, Paul Morley talks to Fergal Kinney about gentrification, TV ghosts, and the North
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Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley

With the publication of his new essay collection, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, talks to Richard King about blogs, brutalism, and the link between Adam Curtis and Mark Fisher
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No Beats, No Bloomsburys: Jonathan Meades Talks Blair, Brutalism & Benny Hill

Owen Hatherley interviews Jonathan Meades about his new book *Pedro and Ricky Come Again*, a massive collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television
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Invasion Of The Bothy Thatchers: Uncanny Ethnography At Highland Folk Museum

Following last year's trip to Tartu Toy Museum, Craft/Work continues its tour of strange and unusual museums with a journey to Newtonmore's Highland Folk Museum with Owen Hatherley
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Make Way For Queer Communism: Owen Hatherley In Bishkek

In an exclusive extract from his new book The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, out now from Repeater Books, Owen Hatherley, goes in search of Utopian Bishkek, only to find all is not what it at first seems
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Europe Endless: Owen Hatherley On The Lost Continent

With his latest book, Trans-Europe Express, out now from Allen Lane, Owen Hatherley talks to Michael Brooks about the nation-state, open borders, and why Morrissey is "just like any other old fat cunt on the Spanish coast"
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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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Forwards Not Forgetting: Owen Hatherley Interviewed

Jamie Sutcliffe talks to the firebrand of architechtural criticism Owen Hatherley about his recent book A New Kind Of Bleak. Main photo by Agata Pyzik

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