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‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’
‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’
For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge
‘To me, it offers a particular emotional experience – something like joyful grief’
‘If criticality indicates a desire for change, then surely the critic is actually an optimist’
‘I started to read Mayröcker’s work obsessively. She became one of the few writers whose every written word I have read’
‘Hollis’s great skill is to reconcile frugality with generosity’
‘I keep returning to the work – even as it changes’
‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’
‘This poetic work of propaganda helped to bring about a queer communist comradeship that spanned more than 6,000 kilometres’
‘In everything she does, Adele’s honesty is at the core of her vision’
‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’
‘I spend my life as a writer trying (failing) to approximate Oswald’s verbal economy of means’
‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’
To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant's collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell pays homage to the pop group
To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups
Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop
Before ‘fake news’ and the turn against Facebook, painter David Salle remembers a book that predicted how the media sphere would shatter
In praise of the inventive brilliance of the late Guy Davenport
