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Best known for their emasculatingly satiric remoulding of 'Money (That's What I Want) ' and subsequently written-off as what D...

 Check out this early manifestation of the Human League, showing how their sound (so different on record) came out of the mid-70s proto-Ind...

Saw this today at the London Print Fair at the RA. Would you pay three grand for an interesting visual twist on Mallarme's Un Coup de D...

    Todd Swift wrote an interesting post recently about the new Penned in the Margins anthology Adventures in Form. A few people commented a...

                                                               My review of The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees  edited by Sandeep Par...

John Updike, steeling himself for more metaphysics on the golf-course     A couple of years ago I wrote a laudatory post about John Updi...

  Fantastic news that Youssou N'Dour has been elected Culture Minister for Senegal. Listen to this sublime tune from his earlier catalo...

One of the defining presences of post-war poetry in English passed away this week aged 82. The unremitting political urgency and depth of h...

                                                                    I met Nick Hornby today at an event at the Ministry of Stories on Hoxto...

                                                         The reading in the Purcell Rooms on Tuesday was a major disappointment in so far ...