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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
Like An Icon, Lucy O’Brien’s newly revised, updated biography explores Madonna's inner turmoil and motivations. Here she picks the ten tracks that define the artist's career, with exclusive insights from the musicians and producers who helped her make them
In an edited extract from her book Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, sociologist Rachel O’Neill explores the way an industry based on the promise of sexual access reconfigures men’s relationships with women – and with other men
Sam Gregory reviews P.W. Barber's Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers, The Fall of Hallucinogenic Research, and the Rise of Big Pharma, a history of the neglected experiments of Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, and Duncan Blewitt