The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period | Music books

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period | Music books

Jon Savage’s mammoth new book skilfully navigates, across more than 700 pages, key moments in music and entertainment history and maps their significance for the advancement and acceptance of queer culture. The... Read more »
All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks | Music

All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks | Music

Monica Heisey The author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen Sondheim My favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed... Read more »
‘The drugs were good, the music was good, the sex was good’ – cult French writer Ann Scott on her UK years | Books

‘The drugs were good, the music was good, the sex was good’ – cult French writer Ann Scott on her UK years | Books

She has been hailed as the literary queen of the Paris techno scene, whose cult novel Superstars immortalised the hedonism and rivalry of the sweat-drenched dancefloors and rave parties of 1990s France.... Read more »
“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs

“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs

Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway ingénue, before her nose bump was aspirational, before she changed... Read more »
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