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Books

Get In The Zone: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh

Stalking the Atomic City, translated by Hanna Leliv & Reilly Costigan-Humes for Pushkin Press, is the memoir of a 'stalker' who spent months exploring the ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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Lives Lost In Mending Gaps: Wayward By Vashti Bunyan

Mathew Lyons reviews Vashti Bunyan's memoir, Wayward
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A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban

As Penguin issues his first eight novels under their Modern Classics imprint, Mathew Lyons looks back over the career of the writer M. John Harrison once called “a quiet, unalloyed delight”

Film

Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday At 30

It topped the Japanese box office in 1991, but Only Yesterday remained somewhat neglected overseas – despite being one of Studio Ghibli's most gentle and mature films, finds Mathew Lyons
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From Dusk Til Doom: Reading Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow

New book Monolithic Undertow promises "an outer stellar orbit of sounds underpinned by the drone”. Mathew Lyons follows the thread from the dawn of time to Sunn O))) and Sarah Davachi
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Hawkwind: Days of the Underground – Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia

Joe Banks' account of the 1970's premier rock wizards presents a group far more radical than they were ever given credit, finds Mathew Lyons
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Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

The new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a journey into the music of the 60s that somehow manages to avoid excessses of nostalgia or sentiment, finds Mathew Lyons
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A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

Mike Barnes' new book A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s explores the expansive possibilities of the progressive rock scene

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