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Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

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Black Metal: Evolution Of The Cult – Review And Interview

Kim Kelly reviews Dayal Patterson's "completely essential" book on BM and John Doran interviews the author

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An Encyclopaedia Of Myself: Jonathan Meades’ Autobiography Reviewed

John Doran looks at Meades' recollections of acid, cold war and much much death in the 1950s

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The Queen Is Dead: Rule, Ritual & Riot In King Charles III

Mike Bartlett and Rupert Goold present Jessie Thompson with a decidedly grim - and historically familiar - vision of Future Britain in King Charles III, showing at the Almeida

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My Mind Shuts Down: An Interview With Ben Marcus

Jess Cotton speaks to novelist and short story author Ben Marcus about bending but not breaking reality, the dictatorial thinking of Jonathan Franzen, Leaving the Sea and why sometimes it's better not to know the answers

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The Body Is A Lever: An Interview With Sam Byers

Houman Barekat speaks to Sam Byers about his debut novel, Idiopathy, the perils of pop psychology and the link between boredom and narcissism

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Three Poems By: JDA Winslow

Taking a break from the standard form - in the battle of consistency vs completeness, the latter having won out - this week we have three new poems by writer and artist JDA Winslow

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All Of Creation Just Winks Out: Chuck Palahniuk Interviewed

Novelist and l'enfant terrible of the American short story Chuck Palahniuk speaks to Kevin Perry about blackmailing for material, betraying the default cynicism of his generation and facing up to fear of death

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Pornography As A Trojan Horse: Peter Buwalda Interviewed

Peter Buwalda speaks to Karl Smith about generational conflict, the evolution and revolution of internet pornography and the artistic aspect of hard sciences in his new novel Bonita Avenue

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Fear & Loathing In Late Capitalism: An Interview With Simon Stephens

Discussing his latest work, Birdland, playwright Simon Stephens speaks to Jessie Thompson about the grotesquery of celebrity culture, taking lessons from Brecht and just turning off your fucking phone

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Two Poems By: Juliet Escoria

This week's new writing comes to us for the first time from West Coast USA in the form of two poems by Juliet Escoria, author of the recently-published (and searing enough to cauterise a gaping wound) short story collection Black Cloud

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Peer Review: Ghost Writing – Juliet Escoria Interviewed By Scott McClanahan

Scott McClanahan, author of Hill William and Crapalachia, speaks to Juliet Escoria about her new book, Black Cloud, making music videos for short stories and whether attractiveness can skew your world view

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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

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Two Poems By: Spencer Madsen

This weeks two poems are taken from Brooklyn-based publisher, editor and writer Spencer Madsen's forthcoming collection, You Can Make Anything Sad

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Peer Review: Against Art On Autopilot – Jeff Jackson Interviewed

Speaking to Eric Obenauf, his publisher and editor at Two Dollar Radio, Jeff Jackson discusses conservativeness and convention in fiction-writing, pop-culture consumption and his LA Times Book Prize-finalist novel Mira Corpora

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Short Fiction By: Socrates Adams

Taking the form a new short story - and a piercing mugshot of an author photo - this week's original writing comes to you via Manchester-based novelist Socrates Adams

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Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes In Europe East And West, An Extract

We're pleased to present an extract of Agata Pyzik's new book about how the East stayed East and the West stayed West after the wall came down...

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Two Poems By: Sophie Collins

This week's new writing once again takes the shape of poetry and comes to us from Sophie Collins - poet, co-founder and co-editor of tender

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The Body Of The Word: An Interview With Eugene Ostashevsky

Speaking to the Leningrad-born poet at his home in Berlin, Eve Richens asks Eugene Ostashevsky about his current project - The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi - his vast array of influences, from Shakespeare to Soviet linguistic propaganda, and the communicative abilities of animals

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Everything Inkluding: Kitchen Sink Books Interviewed

Aug Stone talks to Denis Kitchen and John Lind about that strange brief period when Marvel published underground comix, the new Kitchen Sink imprint, and the French ticklers, Surrealist art, and 78 jukeboxes in between

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Riverrun Through It: Imagining & Reimagining Finnegans Wake

With 'riverrun', the newest in a long line of artistic adaptations of Joyce's famously-less-than-permeable novel, currently playing at the National Theatre Stephanie Boland considers the difficulties of adapting and interpreting Finnegans Wake and Olwen Fouéré's production