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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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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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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
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Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation
In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction
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Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories
As the Winter Olympics opens in Sochi, we present an extract from Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories, published by OR Books, and a glimpse in to the devastating effects of Russia's draconian laws and social attitudes toward homosexuality. The book, by turns harrowing, hilarious and affirming, is nothing if not necessary
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The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred
On the day that would mark the inimitable writer's centennial birthday, Darran Anderson considers the lifetime's work of a true genius and a true bullshit artist, and how - on issues as pressingly contemporary-seeming as censorship, surveillance and the War on Drugs - his work is as relevant now as it's ever been
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Voiceless Voices: An Interview With Rachel Kushner
Marking the paperback release of her much-talked-about second novel, The Flamethrowers, Jess Cotton speaks to author and journalist Rachel Kushner about the artistic magnetism of the 1970s, the influence of the visual arts and working with the idea of the gaze in her writing
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Punk Is What You Make It: Vic Galloway’s Songs In The Key Of Fife
Nicola Meighan speaks with the broadcaster, writer and musician about exactly what makes punk "punk", his book, Songs in the Key of Fife, the musical influence and offspring of that eponymous county, and matching speed metal near beat-for-beat
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Broken Spines: Past & Future Tense (Literary Highlights Of 2013 & 2014)
Not one to be left out, the Quietus Literary Supplement offers up a (not-quite-so-comprehensive) list of its own - our favourite books of 2013, and possible gems of the year-to-come - compiled by friends, contributors and our very own editors
