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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In the early and mid 1990s, says author Jeanette Leech, the language of dance and electronic music was an intrinsic part of post-rock. So why, by the end of that decade, did post-rock lose its groove? Also we have an extract from Jeanette's recent book, Fearless, regarding the bands Tortoise, Bastro and Gastr Del Sol
Read a hard hitting extract from a new book on heavy metal and hip hop in the Middle East, concerning the fate of several metalheads who tried to keep the Syrian scene alive, despite tremendous odds against them doing so
After the publication of his first full length graphic novel with Avery Hill, Steve Tillotson talks to Jenny Robins, and reflects on the journey of a creative through collaboration, disillusionment, perseverance and lashings of deadpan surreal humour
As an outsider, It's tempting to view Japan through an extremely narrow musical lens, a caricature typified by jazz and karaoke – if you're lucky someone might mention either Sakamoto – but Ian F. Martin's new book is a wide angle shot of a sprawling scene
For two decades, Italian author Elena Ferrante maintained her privacy – until a recent article claimed to reveal her 'true' identity. Twenty-five years after the publication of her first novel, Lauren Strain considers the example that her fight for selfhood – and the struggles of the women in her novels – sets for us today. (Image from the film L'Amore Molesto, based on the novel)
In an extract form issue two of Somesuch Stories, through the lens of Mia Farrow Phliipa Snow considers the vampiric effect on and reaction of Hollywood's women of its men – the twisted and plentiful “Daddies”, looking for their daughter binary, to feed from and reshape
In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present
In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
One of the TLS' books of the year, Jen Calleja explores Sophie Collins' translation as activism through her recent Test Centre anthology, Currently & Emotion, and discusses contemporary translation, readership and the pleasures and pains of putting together a book. (Portrait of Vahni Capildeo by Richard Phœnix)
Speaking to the author of The Heavenly Table about empathy with darkness, dead presidents and grotesquery, Sean Kitching finds a writer in possession of both a confident, unique - even defiant - sense of voice and serial doubts about his own success.
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