Renowned music producer Joe Boyd was the first production manager to plug Bob Dylan into an electric guitar, at the Newport folk festival in 1965. He remembers Pete Seeger walking away in... Read more »
The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Saxâs incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
Book News: The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press
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This collection is a debut â it is also an ending. The poet Gboyega Odubanjo died tragically almost a year ago and the final edit of this extraordinary and arresting book has... Read more »
The coolest contemporary movie star, Keanu Reeves, added to his portfolio in 2021 by creating a comic book series called BRZRKR, co-written by Reeves with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney.... Read more »
What do TS Eliot, the Coen brothers, Dorothy Parker, Mel Brooks, Clive James and Woody Allen have in common? The answer is that they all admired SJ Perelman, the droll New York... Read more »
âI am not a biographer, in the usual definition of that term,â Ann Powers writes in her introduction to Travelling, describing herself instead as âa critic, a kind of mapmakerâ. Her book... Read more »
This memoir-cum-polemic by George the Poet, AKA George Mpanga, opens at a party attended by the author where a white man starts preaching about race to a group of Black guests and... Read more »
In 2011, Harriet Wistrich got a call about Sally Challen, who had been convicted of the murder of her husband, Richard. Sally had bludgeoned him to death with a hammer at their Surrey home... Read more »