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09/05/2018

And of course this could have been, and was, many US cities too, cleaved by concrete.

Tamara Faith Berger continues to lie "somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault" as...
09/04/2018

Tamara Faith Berger continues to lie "somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault" as Sheila Heti put it, but now with extra Philip Roth and JM Coetzee...

My mother said, even way back then: ‘Israel is like the Jim Crow American South’

09/03/2018

Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands US tour. This guy used to work for Anthony Bourdain, and you'll see Patrick's curiosity, empathy and story-telling brio if you check one of these out...

A plunge into Asia's criminal underground — worlds inhabited by jihadis, motorbike bandits, North Korean entrepreneurs and a narcotics empire churning out more m**h pills each year than Starbucks sells coffee orders.

I first heard Alan Spence in a cafe in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow called, auspiciously enough, the Third Eye Centre.....
08/18/2018

I first heard Alan Spence in a cafe in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow called, auspiciously enough, the Third Eye Centre...a haven for the bookish, the lonely, the karmic, readers of free newspapers and political pamphlets, students of all stripes and arty sorts (like me)…The Third Eye put on performances, readings and eye-popping indefinables by an astonishing range of people, including Allen Ginsberg, John Byrne, Kathy Acker, Annie Griffin, Edwin Morgan, Ken Currie, Whoopi Goldberg, James Kelman, and a fabulously educational female stripper whose name, to my shame, I forget. Its ambition was to give experience—mind expansion if you like—and what curious loner who loved books, music and surprises wouldn’t have turned up every weekend, all the way from Ayrshire, to gain it.

This Third Eye, then, was where I first heard Alan Spence.

I first heard Alan Spence in a cafe in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow called, auspiciously enough, the Third Eye Centre. It sounds other-worldly and, in some way, was. More definitely, however, it w…

A excerpt from Naben Ruthnum's CURRY...
10/23/2017

A excerpt from Naben Ruthnum's CURRY...

In a 1982 essay, Salman Rushdie describes several attempts at defining the “Indo-Anglian” writer, and indeed the idea of Indianness itself, that he encountered at a conference about Ind…

From Darkness Visible, a lovely book on the world(s) of Philip Pullman, publishing this month in North America, from the...
10/19/2017

From Darkness Visible, a lovely book on the world(s) of Philip Pullman, publishing this month in North America, from the lovely folks at Icon Books...

This interview originally took place on December 9, 2016. Nicholas Tucker: It’s some time since you wrote His Dark Materials. Do you often find yourself looking back to it now it is going to be new…

08/07/2017

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-78578-228-2

In this well-organized analysis of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Tucker, a cultural-studies lecturer at the University of Sussex, shares insight into the influences on the series’ unive

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