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THE NEW REVIEW - Index


BOOK REVIEWS

'Suburban Pornography and Other Stories' - Matthew Firth - here 'These Are Our Lives: Stories' - ed. Declan Meade -here
'The Raw Shark Texts' - Steven Hall -here
'Remainder' - Tom McCarthy -here
'Bird of the Devil' - Edited and Illustrated by Edward Summerton - here
'Decapolis: Tales from Ten Cities' - ed. Maria Crossan - here
'Hope and Other Urban Tales' - Laura Hird - here
'Black Girl/White Girl' - Joyce Carol Oates - here
'Magnetic North: New Writing by North East Writers' - ed. Claire Malcolm - here
'Empty Frames' - D.B. Cox - here
'The Scent of Your Breath' - Melissa P. -here
'Brotherhood of the Grape' - Dan Fante - here
'The Game' - Neil Strauss - here
'Don't Think of an Elephant' - George Lakoff - here
'Gilead' - Marilynne Robinson - here
'Any Human Heart' - William Boyd - here
'An Evolutionary Psychology of Sleep & Dreams' - Patrick McNamara - here
'After the Quake' - Haruki Murakami - here
'The Collected Stories' - Grace Paley - here
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Crack of Doom - Liza Granville
The Edgier Waters: New Writing from Literary Upstarts - ed. A Stevens
The View From Castle Rock - Alice Munro
Hide & Seek - Clare Sambrook
Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies - Anthology
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Unbuttoning the Violin - Various
Escalator - Michael Gardiner
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh
John Clare: A Biography - Jonathan Bate
In the Fold - Rachel Cusk
From Caves of Rotten Teeth - A. Igoni Barrett
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Kingdom Come - J.G. Ballard
IV A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas - Chuck Klosterman
Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
Nazi Anti-Semitism, From Prejudice to the Holocaust - Philippe Burrin
Triquorum One - ed. Christopher Teague
The Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life & TImes of the Notorious Novel Candy - Nile Southern
The Selected Stories - John O'Hara
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller
52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity - Jeffrey Yamaguchi
The Complete Stories' - Zora Neale Hurston
Kidulthood - Noel Clarke & Jim Eldridge
The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
The Last Days of Johnny North - David Swann
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Lowest Level - Chris Major
The Nine Muses - ed. Forrest Aguirre & Deborah Layne
The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
Parenthesis: The Next in Text - ed. Ra Page
Apathy & Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan
The i Tetralogy - Mathias B. Freese
The Dead Hour - Denise Mina
The Yage Letters Redux - William S. Burroughs
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization - Various
Poe's Lighthouse - Ed. Christopher Conlon
Three Things About Me - Aliya Whitelely
The Writer's Life - Al Alvarez
Saturday's Child - Ray Banks
Visits to the Flea Circus - Nick Jackson
This Life - Karel Schoeman
North of Sunset - Henry Baum
Grace and Truth - Jennifer Johnston
The Birds & Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews from Seconds Magazine - ed. Steven Blush & George Petros
Borrowed Body - Valerie Mason-John
Selected Stories - Alice Munro
�Are You She?� by Lesley Glaister - Reviewed by Megan Hornbuckle - Added 31/03/06
�Mean Mode Median� by Aliya Whiteley - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
�Moondust� by Cleveland W. Gibson - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
�Pieces for the Left Hand� by J. Robert Lennon - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
�Digging the Vein� by Tony O�Neill - Reviewed by Zsolt Alapi - Added 31/03/06
�Hating Olivia� by Mark SaFranko - Reviewed by Mike Ferraro - Added 31/03/06
�Mother Missing� by Joyce Carol Oates - Reviewed by Gary Couzens - Added 15/01/06
�Misteress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim� by Mary V. Dearborn - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06
�Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African� by Liz McGregor - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06
�One Pill Makes You Smaller� by Lisa Dierbeck - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 15/01/06
�No God But God� by Reza Aslan - Reviewed by Salman Shaheen - Added 15/01/06
�Ellipsis 1: Comma Modern Shorts� - Reviewed by Robin M. Buehler - Added 15/01/06
�Kittens in the Boiler� by Delphine LeCompte - Reviewed by Paul Kavanagh - Added 15/01/06
'Imagined Corners' by Keith Armstrong - Reviewed by Paul Summers - Added 30/9/05
'Demo' by Alison Miller - Reviewed by Stuart Blackwood - Added 30/9/05
'Bleeding From My Psalms' by Debbie Kirk - Reviewed by Dan Provost - Added 30/9/05
�No More Heroes� by J.R. Endeacott - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 15/01/06
'The Stone Fields' by Courtney Angela Brkic - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 15/01/06
'The Reckoning' by Sue Walker - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Curious Scotland' by George Rosie - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Phoenix in a Bottle' by Lilia & Murdoch MacDonald - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Corksucker' by Dan Fante - Reviewed by Tony O'Neill - Added 20/6/05
'Incendiary' by Chris Cleave - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft' by Peter Levenda - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'No Country for Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'Two-Way Split' by Allan Guthrie - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Children at War' by Peter Moore Smith - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Los Angeles' by P.W. Singer - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Success... And How to Avoid it' by Mat Coward - Reviewed by Peter Tennant - Added 20/3/05
'Odd' by Charles P. Ries - Reviewed by Kris Rued-Clark - Added 20/3/05
'Passing for Blue' by D.B. Cox - Reviewed by Laura Hird - Added 20/3/05
�Born Free� by Laura Hird - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06
�Poems for the Retired Nihilist� edited by Graham Bendel - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06
�One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed� by Melissa P. - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 15/01/06
'Women as Lovers' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'The Piano Teacher' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Chicken Bones' by Michael Paul Ladanyi - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Frank O�Hara: Selected Poems' ed. by Donald Allen - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 30/9/05
'Notice' by Heather Lewis - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Book of Resurrection'by Mark Hartenbach - Reviewed by D.B. Cox - Added 20/3/05
�The Complete Stories� by Truman Capote - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06
�A Multitude of Sins� by Richard Ford - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06
�Tropic of Cancer� and �Tropic of Capricorn� by Henry Miller - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
�The Collected Stories� by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
�Mr Bridge� and �Mrs Bridge� by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
'The Stories of John Cheever' by John Cheever - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 30/9/05
'Sanctuary' by William Faulkner - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/6/05
'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'Girl Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'Getting Mother's Body' by Suzan-Lori Parks - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'How We Should Rule Ourselves' by Alasdair Gray & Adam Tomkins - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 15/01/06
'Sexual Healing' by Jill Nelson - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05
'The Incredible Adam Spark' by Alan Bissett - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05
'Who Killed Mr Drum?' by Sylvester Stein - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/6/05
'Hell of a Journey' by Mike Cawthorne - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/3/05
'Owen Noone and the Marauder' by Douglas Cowie - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 31/12/04
'Out of Mind' by Sam Hayes - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Reviewed 31/12/04
'Shoe Fly Baby: The Asham Award Short Stories' - edited by Kate Pullinger - Reviewed by Ryan Williams - Added 31/2/04
'Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace' by Prakash Kona - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 30/9/05
'The Eye of Cybele' by Daniel Chavarria - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 20/6/05
'The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh' by Chian Lee - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 31/12/04
'The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley - Reviewed by Tim Foster - Added 31/12/04
'Doing It' by Melvin Burgess - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 20/3/05
'Mop Men: California's Crime Scene Cleaners' - by Alan Emmins - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 19/11/04
'Like the Night (Revisted)' - by C.P. Lee - Reviewed by Ecky Lum - Added 8/11/04
�Betrayal� by Karin Alvtegen - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 31/03/06
�Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen� by Arielle Eckstut - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 15/01/06
'The Secrets She Keeps' by Helen Cross - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 30/9/05
'The In-between World of Vikram Lall' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 20/6/05
'The Devil Kissed Her: The Life of Mary Lamb' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 2/10/04
'Observing Life While Drinking Rat Milk' by Dan Provost - Reviewed by Brian Cuninghame - Added 12/9/04
'Nothing Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith' - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 16/9/04
'The Price of Salt' by Patricia Highsmith - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 2/9/04
'The Sound of White Ants' by Brian Howell - Reviewed by Robert Ciesla - Added 30/8/04
'London Revenant' by Conrad Williams - Reviewed by Gary McMahon - Added 5/8/04
'Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 20/6/05
'The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 27/7/04
'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 30/9/04
'The Book of Illusions' by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 15/7/04
'Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton' by Stewart Home - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/6/05
'1982 Janine' by Alasdair Gray - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/05
'Only Anarchists are Pretty' by Mick O'Shea - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'Wheels Out of Gear' by Dave Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'The End of Elsewhere: Travels Amongst the Tourists' by Taras Grescoe - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'Voyageurs' by Margaret Elphinstone - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/04
'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/9/04
'The Rum Diary' by Hunter S. Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/6/04
�Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
�Protestant Boy' by Geoffrey Beattie - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
�Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore' by Bettany Hughes - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
�Travel Light' by Naomi Mitchison - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06
�We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06
'Under African Skies: Modern African Short Stories' ed. by Charles R. Larson - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05
�Lord of Illusions' by Dilys Rose - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05
'The People's Act of Love' by James Meek - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/6/05
'The History of Love' by Nicole Krauss - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'The Ice Museum' by Joanna Kavenna - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'Mad Mary Lamb' by Susan Tyler Hitchcock - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'Runaway' by Alice Munro - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'McCrae's Batallion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots' by Jack Alexander - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04
'Telling Tales' edited by Nadine Gordimer - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04
'A Bit on the Side' by William Trevor - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/10/04
'The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-Kissing in the North-East' by Bill Duncan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 18/9/04
'Vivaldi and the Number 3' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 13/9/04
'Boy A' by Jonathan Trigell - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/7/04
'The McGovan Casebook: Experiences of a Detective in Victorian Edinburgh' by James McGovan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/7/04
'Fear of de Sade' by Bernardo Carvalho - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 16/6/04
'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali' by Gil Courtemanche - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/6/04
'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 23/5/04
�An Iraqi in Paris� - by Samuel Shimon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/03/06
�Purgatory� - by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06
�Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories From North Africa' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06
'Whispers in the Dark' by Liza Granville - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Death of a Prima Donna' by Brina Svit - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Secrets: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2005' ed. by Janice Galloway - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS' by Helga Schneider - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Incognita' by William Congreve - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Almanacs' by Jen Hadfield - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Wall' by Jean-Paul Sartre - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Point of Splitting' by Sally Read - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Stevenson Under the Palm Trees' by Alberto Manguel - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Ghosts at Cockcrow' by Stewart Conn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Until the Final Hour' by Traudl Junge - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Life Mask' by Jackie Kay - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Stillness' by Courtney Angela Brkic - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Duel' by Giacomo Casanova - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Nights of Akhenaton' by Agnes Nemes Nagy - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - font color="red">Added 20/3/05
'The Devil's Pool' by George Sand - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Apology for a Murder' by Lorenzino de' Medici - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Stasiland' by Anna Funder - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'The Tree House' by Kathleen Jamie - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Ground Water' by Matthew Hollis - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Berlin Interiors' edited by Angelika Taschen - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'Jar City' by Arnuldar Indridason - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'Empire of the Wolves by Jean-Christophe Grange - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/11/04
'Being Alive' - Edited by Neil Astley - Added 8/11/04
'The Knuckle End' - Edited by Adrian Searle - Added 8/11/04
'My Name is Light' by Elsa Osorio - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/10/04
'Give Me Songs for Lovers' by Irina Denezhkina - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/8/04
'Transformation' by Mary Shelley - reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 24/8/04
'Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire' by Ruy Castro - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 13/8/04
'North: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2004' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 6/8/04
'The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh' by John Cairney - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 1/8/04
'Bad Attitudes' by Agnes Owens - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - 29/7/04
'Tropical Truth' by Caetano Veloso - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 16/7/04
'Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith' by Andrew Wilson - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 3/7/04
'The Lover's Watch' by Aphra Behn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 28/6/04
'Whoever You Choose to Love' by Colette Paul - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 23/6/04
'Haunted Weather' by David Toop - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 12/6/04
'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 7/6/04
'The Butcher' by Alina Reyes - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 18/5/04
'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 17/5/04
'Night and Fear' by Cornell Woolrich - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/6/05
'The Elastic Book of Numbers' - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/3/05
'The Golem by Gustav Meyrink - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 31/12/04
'Terror Tales #2' - Ed. John B. Ford & Paul Kane - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 8/7/04
'Blag' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Laurence Inman - Added 11/7/04
�The Fahrenheit Twins� By Michel Faber - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/01/06
'Cloud Atlas' By David Mitchell - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05
'The Book of Voices' Edited by Michael Butscher - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05
'City, Silver, Sister' by Jachym Topol - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 31/12/04
'Moon Beaver ' by Andrew Hook - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04
'The Terror from Beyond Middle England' by Sarah Crabtree - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04
'Refusal Shoes' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 28/6/04
'Castles Made of Sand' by Gwyneth Jones - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/5/04
'Guide for the Perplexed' by Gilad Atzmon - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 11/5/04
'Not the End of the World' by Kate Atkinson - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 10/5/04
'The London Silence' by Stephen Moran - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 20/3/05
'The Last Flight of the Flamingo' by Mia Couto - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 15/8/04
'Ella Minnow Pea' by Mark Dunn - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 3/8/04
'The Nautical Chart' by Arturo Perez-Reverte - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 19/7/04
'Fisher of Devils' by Steve Redwood - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 31/5/04
'Drinking Coffee Elsewhere' by ZZ Packer - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 7/4/04
'Visits from the Drowned Girl' by Steven Sherrill - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05
'Come Closer' by Sara Gran - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05
'Remembered America' - The Poems of Dick McBride - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/8/04
'American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 24/7/04
'Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle' by Paul McDonald - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 5/7/04
'Nicolo's Gifts' by Neil Ayres - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/4/04
�In This Block There Lives a Slag� by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton
�I Was a Murder Junkie: The Last Days of GG Allin� by Evan Cohen - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Weasels in a Box� by John Pierson - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Even a Daughter is Better Than Nothing� by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�I A Me-Ist� by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith� by Kevin Smith - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Haunted� by Chuck Palahniuk - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Irvine Welsh� by Aaron Kelly - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�J.G. Ballard� by Andrzej Gasiorek - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Sheepshagger� by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae
�Tilt� by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco' by Daryl Easlea - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 20/3/05
'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 31/12/04
'Try' by Dennis Cooper - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 22/9/04
'Night Visits' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 16/9/04
'The Sensational Alex Harvey' by John Neil Munro - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 24/8/04
'You're an Animal, Viskovitz' by Alessandro Boffa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 7/6/04
'The One' by Paul Reed - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj
'Doctor Mooze' by Panton di Villa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 25/5/04
'The Week You Weren't Here' by Charles Blackstone - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 19/5/04
'Brass' by Helen Walsh - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 12/4/04
'Sheepshagger' by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae
'Tilt' by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'Slouching Towards Nirvana' by Charles Bukowski - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'In This Block There Lives a Slag' by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton

WRITING EVENT REVIEWS


Chuck Palahniuk - Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL - 09/06/06

MUSIC REVIEWS


'Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards' - Tom Waits - here
'Jarvis' - Jarvis Cocker - here
'Keeping the Faith: A Creation Records Dance Compilation - here
Yes, Virginia - The Dresden Dolls
The Devil Has All the Best Tunes - NEW SECTION
Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids
Last Night, As I Was Wandering - Barry McCormack
Marion Arnott's review of John Nichol and Hilary Bell�s �War and Glaur� - here
Mathew West's review of Queens of the Stone Age�s �Lullabies to Paralyze� - here
Mathew West's review of Bright Eyes� 'I�m Wide Awake, It�s Morning' - here
Graham Rae's review of 'The Dwarves Must Die' - here
Megan Hornbuckle's review of 'Faded Seaside Glamour' by The Delays - here
Peter Murphy's review of Neil Diamond�s �Twelve Songs� - here
Peter Murphy's review of Franz Ferdinand�s �You Could Have It So Much Better� - here
Peter Murphy's review of Kathleen Edwards� �Back to Me� - here
Peter Murphy's review of Bruce Springsteen�s �Devils and Dust� - here
Peter Murphy's review of The Mars Volta�s �Frances the Mute� - here
Peter Murphy's review of U2's 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' - here
Peter Murphy's review of Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' (Legacy Edition) - here
Peter Murphy's review of Marianne Faithfull's, 'Before the Poison' - here
Peter Murphy's review of 'Real Gone' by Tom Waits - here
Peter Murphy's review of 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - here
Marc Goldin's review of Sinead O�Connor�s �Throw Down Your Arms� - here
Marc Goldin's review of Vouvelle Vague�s �Sorry for Laughing� - here
Marc Goldin's review of Mary Gauthier�s �Mercy Now� - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Tribalistas' by Tribalistas - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Musicology' by Prince - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of �Whatever People Say I Am, That�s What I�m Not by Arctic Monkeys - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of 'Young and Stupid' by Josef K - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Celso Fonseco's 'Natural' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Sabrina Malhieros's 'Equilibria' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Ute Lemper's 'Berlin Cabaret Songs' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Natacha Atlas's 'Something Dangerous' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Loreena McKennitt's 'The Mask and the Mirror' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Loreena McKennitt's 'The Book of Secrets' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Mediaeval Baebes 'Undrentide' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Mediaeval Baebes 'Worles Blysse' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Fernanda Porto's 'Fernanda Porto' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of the compilation, 'Brazilounge Dois' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Estrella Morente's 'My Songs and a Poem' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Suba's 'Sao Paulo Confessions' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Cibelle's 'Cibelle' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Jane Birkin's 'Rendez-Vous' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Bebel Gilberto' by Bebel Gilberto - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Zipless' by Vanessa Daou - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Songs from the Cold Seas,' produced by Hector Zazou - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Yol Bolsin' by Sevara Nazarkhan - here



THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TUNES


J.S Bach / Charles Gounod - Ave Maria - here
Chic � �Le Freak� - here
The Clash � �Rock the Casbah� - here
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sugar-Coated Sour - here
Doctor Feelgood � Roxette - here
Bob Dylan � �Blonde on Blonde� - here
Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vidda - here
Jamie T. � Sheila - here
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia - here
Kraftwerk � The Model - here
Ronnie Lane � Harvest Home - here
John Lennon � Imagine - here
Screeching Weasel � Hey Suburbia - here
Television � Marquee Moon - here
Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land - here
Neil Young � A Man Needs A Maid - here
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Babes in Toyland - Catatonic
Chet Baker - Almost Blue
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness
Leonard Cohen - Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
John Coltrane - Like Someone in Love
Elbow - Station Approach
Jimi Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner
Ronnie Hilton - A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
Landscape - Norman Bates
Little Richard - Lucille
Listen With Sarah - Blue Parsley
Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
New Order - Technique
Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Stooges - Search and Destroy
Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Subway Sect - Ambition
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Various - A Soundtrack to My Life
Various - Indie-Folk'
Various - My Two Minutes Are Up
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

GIG REVIEWS


Morrissey - Live at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago - 21/11/2006 - here
Josh Ritter - Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin - 22/3/06
Rob Hart�s review of Patrick Duff live at Bar Academy, Birmingham on 15/03/2006 - here
Kara Kellar Bell�s review of Mariza supported by Flook at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 27/01/2006 - here
Stuart Blackwoods�s review of Gang of Four live at The Barbican, London on 24/9/2005 - here
Stuart Blackwoods�s review of Antony and the Johnsons live at Carling Academy, Glasgow on 29/11/2005 - here
Mathew West�s review of Bob Dylan live at the SECC, Glasgow on 17/11/2005 - here
Mathew West�s review of Manic Street Preachers live at Edinburgh Corn Exchange on 15/4/2005 - here
Mathew West�s review of The Mars Volta live at Glasgow Barrowlands on 11/3/2005 - here
Marc Goldin�s review of Mary Gautier live at Schuba�s, Chicago on 6/6/2005 - here
Tony O�Neill�s review of Kraftwerk Live at Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC on 1/6/2005 - here
Nick Dockerty's review of The Shanners at the Hope & Anchor on 03/02/05 - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of Franz Ferdinand/Arcade Fire gig Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh on 31/8/04 - here

Iain Bahlaj's review of Franz Ferdinand gig at The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh on 29/4/04 - here


FEATURE ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS


Patrick McCabe - Interview - here
Alan Moore - Interview - here
Jon McGregor - Interview - here
William Styron - Article - here Paul Rusesabagina - Interview
Lionel Shriver - Interview
Iran vs Mexico in World Cup 2006: Better Living Through Football - Article
William Taylor Jr - Interview
George Saunders - Interview
Willy Vlautin - Interview
The Foundation of Poetry - Interview with Charles P Ries
Are Women Underrepresented in the Small Press - Article
Ellen Parker, Editor, Frigg Magazine - Interview
Joel Van Noord�s article �If it�s a War of Propaganda� - here
Dan Fante�s article on John Fante�s �Ask the Dust� - here
Michelle McGrane�s interview with Hagen Engler - here
Mike Ferraro interview with Mark SaFranko - here
Mike Ferraro interview with Dan Fante about Robert Towne�s �Ask the Dust� - here
Neil Ayres� interview with Lavie Tidhar - here
Neil Ayres� interview with Steve Redwood - here
Neil Ayres� interview with Mike Butscher - here
Tony O�Neill�s interview with Dan Fante - here
Laura Hird�s interview with Alasdair Gray - here
Marc Goldin's article, A Love Letter to New Orleans' - here
Marc Goldin's article, 'For Hunter S. Thompson' - here
Marc Goldin's article, 'On Che Guevara & the Motorcycle Diaries: Thoughts from an Unrepentant Leftist' - here
Graham Rae's interview with Robert Katzman - here
Graham Rae's interview with Single Cell Press -

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