Books
From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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Crumbling Pillars Of Feminine Convention: Viv Albertine’s Autobiography
Rhian E. Jones delves deep in to Viv Albertine's autobiography, finding much more than just another punk memoir, something more like a treatise on socially and culturally accepted and expected modes of sex and sexuality, of femininity and the impact, immediate and enduring, of those eponymous clothes, music and boys
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Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed
Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan
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Wrote Through Ghosts To Get Here: Ghosts Of My Life & Cultural Paralysis
Exploring - and taking as a yardstick - Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Paul Wolinski considers the apparent paralysis of contemporary culture and the slow cancellation of the future through the lens of the success and failures of advances in electronic music production
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Year Zero: Momus’s UnAmerica Reviewed
Maxi Kim considers the the social and philosophical commentary - via organised religion, Aristotle, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and the work of Darren Aronofsky - as well as the possible prophetic and prescriptive qualities of writer and musician Momus' new novel
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Midnight Doesn’t Mean Anything: An Interview With Ned Beauman
Karl Smith speaks to the Man Booker long listed author and Granta Best Young Novelist about the difference between crack and classical music, talking with foxes and how his new novel, Glow, is as much a thriller as it is a love letter
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I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best: Harry Burke Interviewed
Sam Riviere speaks to poet, curator and editor of recently published poetry anthology 'I Love Roses When They're Past Their Best', Harry Burke, about defying borders and boundaries, technological determinism and whether or not poetry should be free
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Nothing To Celebrate: Tradition, Ideology & Corruption In Theatre
Visiting the two currently-running plays, Jessie Thompson considers critiques of Capitalism, Conservative ideologies and the self-serving class system in Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Julian Mitchell's Another Country, finding them still dishearteningly relevant thirty years later
