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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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YAAAAAAAAS Jesus: An Interview With Brontez Purnell
‘Forgive Me, Philip’ from Brontez Purnell’s *White Boy Music* EP was one of our tracks of the year in 2020. Now this year Purnell has published two novels. Huda Awan chats with the multitalented Bay Area resident about grief, trash, and why rock’n’roll is so boring these days
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Burden Of Proofs: The Return Of Our Crime Fiction Column
In the second edition of our crime fiction column, Angus Batey reviews new books from John Barlow, James Lee Burke, Nickolas Butler, James Ellroy, Paula Hawkins, and others, while Enrico Monacelli tackles Joseph Knox's latest and the new unfinished book in podcast form from Bret Easton Ellis
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Prole Art Threat: Cynthia Cruz On The Melancholia Of Class
With her new book The Melancholia of Class just out from Repeater Books, author Cynthia Cruz talks to Enrico Monacelli about identity politics, class consciousness, and why Mark E. Smith was one of the great working class militants of the 20th Century
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Everyone’s Invited: Author Amber Medland On Toxic Masculinity
Amber Medland's new book Wild Pets is "an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction" (*The Guardian*). In this exclusive essay for the Quietus, she talks about campus rape culture and teaching masculinity in the classroom
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Love Letter To A Vanishing City: Willy Vlautin On The Night Always Comes
Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon
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Hajar Press: The Indie Publisher With Anti-Racism At Its Core
Hajar Press is an independent political publishing house run by and for people of colour, with new books either recently published or soon to come from Sarah Lasoye, Jamal Mehmood, Heba Hayek, Yara Hawari, Cradle Community & Lola Olufemi. Tope Olufemi talks to founders, Brekhna Aftab and Farhaana Arefin
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Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album
Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut
