Features
Woman of Substances (Jenny Valentish)
Addiction isn’t gender neutral, and neither is mental health. (read more)
books
Society
A Decade of ‘Delics: Shroom, Ten Years On
Ten years later, the cultural history of the magic mushroom still gathers fans and furore (read more)
Art
An Iconography Of Chance (99 Photographs Of The Evanescent South)
Tav Falco presents a lifetime’s worth of photography from a colourful and cool past and present (read more)
Society
In New York City with the Hepatitis Bathtub
En route to NYC for a NOFX book signing, Scott Laudati takes the Red Sox and racism trail (read more)
Events
Talk Talk Live Night and Book Launch
The Spirit of Talk Talk book launch, bands, album playback, animations and afterparty brings the chills to the Clapham Grand. (read more)
Art
Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]
One of the major successes of de Freston’s imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday (read more)
Society
Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall
A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city. (read more)
Society
Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)
Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you’re free to imagine the past how you like. (read more)
Society
Neil Gaiman at the Barbican
For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves. (read more)
Art
This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk
By expounding upon Turk’s themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault (read more)
Society
Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker
Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text. (read more)
Society
Ministry : Drug Gospels by Al Jourgensen
‘As Al puts it: the guy that was supposed to have his back was clamped on it’. The Ministry story, according to Jourgenson. (read more)