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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
With the imminent publication of his autobiography (co-authored with Paul Morley), Island Records founder Chris Blackwell talks to Matthew Ingram about recording sessions with Grace Jones, the importance of good cover art, and the trouble with U2
For thirty years, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell of Fuel Design have been publishing strange and unusual books about sweet wrappers and Soviet bus stops by the likes of Jonny Trunk, Owen Hatherley, Tracey Emin, and the Chapman Brothers. They talk to Nilgin Yusuf about plane crashes and independent publishing
As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?