EXTRACT: The Living and the Dead — Toby Austin Locke
This is an extract from The Living and the Dead by Toby Austin Locke. There is a launch event at The Word bookshop (Goldsmiths) on 4th May - open to all. Facebook event here. What are the dwelling-places of the human? Are
Dawn Foster on Theresa May
In an extract from her recent book Lean Out, Dawn Foster explores the limits of self-proclaimed feminist Theresa May's solidarity with women. The notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre was opened in 2001, under the last Labour government, and management was outsourced
EXTRACT: Resolution Way by Carl Neville
Graeme has a place waiting in the recently requisitioned Walpole Bay Hotel and Nick puts him in a USG minivan with a few other recent arrivals. The rooms are all full and so a series of bunk beds and spaces
The Great Digital Swindle by Mark Fisher
Who dares dissent from the gospel according to Silicon Valley? There is – we are insistently told – no alternative to the invasion of capitalist cyberspace into all areas of consciousness and culture. Anyone who expresses even the mildest scepticism about
An extract from Lean Out by Dawn Foster
Backlash “There’s no such thing as the voiceless, only the deliberately silenced and the preferably unheard.”—Arundhati Roy Post-crash, countless studies have shown that the impact of cuts and austerity has been borne predominately by women. A Fawcett Society study on the impact
An extract from The Isle of Minimus by M. K. L. Murphy
....the shabby houses of La Villette and Bercy, where famous poets spilled wine across their tattered and eternally unfinished manuscripts while dashing to the floor the inmates' tiaras and robes de chambre in acts of romantic debauchery that, when publicized,
Mordor, Helmand, Brisbane Road: Football’s New Rhetoric of Ordeal
There was a point about four or five years ago, a point I’m not bothered about confirming archivally but which nonetheless definitely occurred, at which football clubs almost uniformly, if you’ll allow the pun, changed the way that they marketed
What do Lenin & the Russian Revolution mean to the 21st century left?
This is an extract from a work-in-progress - No Less than Mystic: What do Lenin and the Russian Revolution mean to the 21st Century left? by John Medhurst. The book will be published by Repeater in late 2016/early 2017 The aim of this
An extract from Smile if you Dare by Ramzy Alwakeel
This is an edited extract from Smile if you Dare: Politics and Pointy Hats with the Pet Shop Boys, by Ramzy Alwakeel, which will be published by Repeater next year. Two decades on, there’s something implausible about Very. The Pet Shop Boys’ fifth album
Oxygen for Terrorists
Dissent is and always has been entwined with media depictions of it, whether it wants to be or not, and whether that coverage is beneficial or not. The traditional assumption is often that it is, however; as Thatcher famously announced: