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12 Jan 2007
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Taking complicated economic arguments and turning them into coherent and accessible reading is no mean task. But Will Hutton has long been a master of making the difficult easier to digest. His previous books have looked at…
19 Dec 2006
MEMOIR Maybe it has ever been thus, but the cult of an individual neither you nor I have ever heard of telling us all about their unfortunate life seems to be spreading. We may wish to blame Frank McCourt for it all, but the misery market is flooded…
7 Dec 2006
BIOGRAPHY/MANUAL What’s the first rule among magicians? Surely it’s the one about never ever divulging the secrets of your chosen profession. So, what on earth is Derren Brown doing here telling the humble general public how to develop useful…
POETRY In the recent Punk Night documentary on ITV4, John Lydon was being characteristically, boringly dismissive of the New York acts (Ramones, Television, Patti Smith) who arrived as the British wave exploded. They were just too educated, too…
27 Nov 2006
PHOTOJOURNALISM A picture, as the hoary old cliché runs, paints a thousand words. If that’s the case, then there may not be enough of them in all the languages of the world to cover the stories featured in LIFE magazine down the years. Created in…
21 Nov 2006
COLLECTED JOURNALISM Throughout much of his journalistic career, Jon Ronson has played a bit part in his stories, occasionally stumbling about in the background while his subjects (fascists, fundamentalists and felons mainly), hang themselves on…
11 Nov 2006
CELEBRITY DIARIES When documentary-maker Jacques Peretti began a project about the final days of Kurt Cobain, his approach to Courtney Love was met with a firm rejection: ‘I don’t want to do the rock widow thang anymore.’ But, like or not, and as…
12 Oct 2006
SOCIAL DRAMA Epic historical trilogies must be a hell of a grind. So, you can forgive Roddy Doyle for taking his eye temporarily off the ball of his Last Roundup series (two down: A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play that Thing, one to come in, probably…
2 Oct 2006
POLITICAL HISTORY From the man who brought us Cocaine comes the richly detailed story of mind control, the full unexpurgated past of truth drugs, hypnosis, Pavlovian experiments and sleep deprivation. Everything from the Moscow Show Trials to…
NATURE TALE One early passage in this book from the author of Swimming to Antarctica reveals just how dangerous a stingray can be. ‘When the barb is injected into the foot, it locks into the skin and the only way to extricate it is to have it…
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