And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music | Music books

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music | Music books

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 »
Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Sax’s incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press

The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press

Book News: The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press BookBrowse News – The Full Story The ‘Southwest Review’ launches... Read more »
Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing | Poetry

Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing | Poetry

This collection is a debut – 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 Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks | Science fiction books

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks | Science fiction books

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 »
Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

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 »
Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick | Music books

“I am not a biographer, in the usual definition of that term,” Ann Powers writes in her introduction to Travelling, describing herself instead as “a critic, a kind of mapmaker”. Her book... Read more »
Track Record by George the Poet audiobook review – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political | George the Poet

Track Record by George the Poet audiobook review – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political | George the Poet

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 »
Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

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 »
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