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Ian Thomson
Why is Houellebecq's remorseless pessimism so appealing?
serotonin by michel houellebecq, william heinemann, 309pp, £20/$27 michel houellebecq, the french novelist and professional contrarian, deli...
The malodorous politics behind Chanel No 5
chanel’s riviera: life, love and struggle for survival on the côte d’azur 1930-1944 by anne de courcy weidenfeld and nicolson, 304pp, £20/$2...
Kociejowski's poems are an antidote to the dumbing down of modern life
collected poems by marius kociejowski carcanet, 99pp, £12.95/$18.99 the literary travelogue – with elements of history, anthropology, person...
From American Psycho to Charlie Hebdo
in may 2015, some 200 members of pen america, a respected literary organisation to which many writers belong, decided not to present the sur...
Fellini's films mingle piety with paganism
fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...
The suffering poet who sighed for lost Edens
the letters of sylvia plath: volume ii edited by peter steinberg and karen krull, faber and faber, 1,025pp, £35/$35 since her suicide in the...
Epicentre of low life and high conversation
soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...
The aftermath of the Brazilian renaissance
brazil: a biography by lilia schwarcz and heloisa starling, allen lane, 761pp, £30 in a now famous book of 1928, manifesto antropófago , bra...
A comedy obsessed with divine justice
Dante thought politicians had ruined Italy. His poem takes revenge
Feted by his fans, abused by racists
making oscar wilde by michèle mendelssohn, oup, 360pp, £20 in january 1882, oscar wilde toured america with a trunkful of lace-trimmed velve...
Music: The band that saved Germany from kitsch
can – the singles mute/spoon records, vinyl/cd/download can, typically for a so-called krautrock band, rejected germany’s saccharine post-wa...
Film: Making trouble in the rock’n’roll underworld
danny says (unrated, 105 mins, ★★★ ) danny fields, the gadfly-entrepreneur of us pop and proto-punk, is attracted to “crazy peop...
A ray of light in Jamaica
catholics have lived in jamaica since christopher columbus weighed anchor off the island’s north coast in 1494. jamaica was seized from spai...
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