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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
Author Carl Neville examines two recent books bringing the Ccru project of hyperstition into the domain of political economy, the Will Davies-edited Economic Science Fictions, from Goldsmiths Press, and Repeater Books' Futures and Fictions
With the publication this weekend of Rob Young’s book All Gates Open: The Story Of Can, Sean Kitching chats to Irmin Schmidt about the development of the book, the origins of the band, and the surprising tenderness of Mark E. Smith
In an extensive #longread interview, Lisa Jenkins talks to Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, about Trump, Brexit, David Bowie, and his new book The Nothing
In advance of his new book, Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray discusses his work – and settles a few scores – with Michael Brooks, from the errors of Richard Dawkins to the pernicious bullshit of Steven Pinker
Contemporary authors Stewart Home, Isabel Waidner, Lee Rourke, Juliette Jacques, Stuart Evers, China Miéville, and Lara Pawson reflect on the work of English experimental novelist Ann Quin, whose collection The Unmapped Country has recently been published by And Other Stories