Jon Savageâs 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 »
The text messages that open Brittney Grinerâs memoir are a chilling short story. âHey baby I got stopped by security at customs.â âIf you donât hear from me for like one hour... Read more »
In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for âa... Read more »
Clare Hammond began her career as a journalist covering the financial markets in Hong Kong, before moving to Myanmar. From 2014 to 2020, she worked freelance for various news outlets and as... Read more »
Nobody imagined that last autumnâs Netflix series Beckham was a warts-and-all confessional. âThere were some horrible stories that were difficult to deal with,â said David, alluding coyly to reports in 2004 that... Read more »
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes (4th Estate, £16.99)Thereâs no hanging about in Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zeránâs third novel, which opens with images of rabbits being frightened to... Read more »
There is, it seems, an unwritten law in the world of artificial intelligence, which I will attempt to distil here: âAny discussion of AI must include an early and robust reference to... Read more »
Oleksandr Mykhed and his wife Olena lost their home when the Russians invaded Ukraine. Before February 2022 he had never held a gun in his hands. But a week before the invasion,... Read more »
Say what you like about the biographer Tom Bower, he hits the ground running: from the opening bars of House of Beckham, an epic symphony of snide, you know exactly where youâre... Read more »