Books
From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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‘Getting Ready’: A Cuntata By May-Lan Tan & Elizabeth Mikesch
New writing this week is part of an on-going collaboration between authors Elizabeth Mikesch and May-Lan Tan, Planetette, the product of an aggressive approach, vandalising each other's sentences until it's no longer clear who has written what
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Bonds Of Morality: Ben Myers’ Beastings Reviewed In Conversation
Weary of the standard review format — of answering the question 'Yeah, but is it any good?' — Kit Caless, publisher at Influx Press, sits down with novelist and academic Heidi James to discuss their experience of Ben Myers' new novel Beastings
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No Stars In Krautrock: David Stubbs’ Future Days Reviewed
Getting stuck in to David Stubbs' more-than-just-an-index new book, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany, Stewart Smith considers the unique egolessness and socio-historical peculiarities that gave rise to the enigmatic genre and Stubbs' effectiveness as guide
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David Sylvian: On The Periphery
Extracted from the recently-published biography, On The Periphery: David Sylvian: The Solo Years and introduced by author Chris Young, we come in on the former Japan lead-vocalist in the early-2000's having just relocated and set up his SamadhiSound studio, the seemingly-idyllic situation shattered by personal crises that would play themselves out on his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed Blemish
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America Eats Its Young: On George Clinton’s Grand Statement
In an edited extract from his new book, George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey Of The P-Funk Empire, Kris Needs examines the circumstances - social, political, cultural and personal - that lead to Funadelic's under-appreciated Grand Statement America Eats its Young
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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
