John Higgs is a novelist, biographer and cultural historian, whose work traces the impact of countercultural ideas on […]
Jennifer Hodgson is a writer, critic, and the editor of The Unmapped Country, by the radical author Ann […]
Like blood from a crikey it was, a hurt through the brain. Not in some grand meta, maybe […]
Liska Jacobs’ debut novel Catalina (MCD/FSG Originals) follows the exploits of Elsa Fisher, a woman on the edge […]
The phenomenological condition of headlessness — that is, the absence of a head — has a curiously rich history in Western literature […]
The rising popularity of indigenous plant medicines was, perhaps, one of the less expected phenomena of the late […]
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard. Everyone who’s […]
‘This is a book only be necessity. More seriously, it is an effort in human actuality, in which […]
The book is small and unassuming. You could slip it into the back pocket of your jeans. The […]
1. I want to tell you of a painting by Jusepe de Ribera, a 17th-century Pietà kept in […]
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