Chrissie Hynde, not just a Pretender
Book review: A coming-of-age picaresque, where the important stuff takes place before the rock ’n’ roll day job starts.
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Eileen: A protagonist bitter and sweet, twisted and innocent
Book review: Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh
A complex novel grows in Brooklyn
Book review: Set in 2003 Brooklyn, Tanwi Nandini Islam’s ’Bright Lines’ depicts a plucky place before the hipster overrun
New York folk, from Gaslight Café to Village Gate
Book review: How New York’s Washington Square Park became the epicentre of folk music’s renaissance
The life of a bunga bunga king
Book review: Michael Day’s biography of media-mogul-turned-three-time-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
Lessons from a literary surfing life
Book review: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
A fevered ode to insomnia
Book review: Bright Eyed: Insomnia and its cultures
A sideshow of an Appalachian novel
Book review: ’A Hanging at Cinder Bottom’ is Mark Twain meets ’Ocean’s Eleven’
A true-ish story of a Russian oligarch’s rise and fall
Book review: Ben Mezrich’s story of Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia’s richest oligarchs, tries to fill in the gaps on a legacy steeped in mystery
The politics of Kendo
Book review: Alexander C. Bennett’s Kendo: Culture of the Sword