2026 marks the 50th anniversary of punk’s breakthrough year: 1976 — the moment punk stopped being an underground murmur and became a global cultural shockwave. Fittingly, Chris Sullivan and Stephen » Read More

"Spaulding attempts to repair a critical vocabulary that has long known what to do with Duchampian skepticism, but is much less sure about Beuysian belief"

"Side by side, the books make a case for the permeability of her fiction and her criticism; you can hear them like Pyramus and Thisbe whispering through walls"

"What still amazes me, and what I envy, is this: Fried intuited that his taste in contemporary art had a historical basis"

Staring down the barrel of a new decade, the writer and actor Cazzie David spent the final year of her 20s attempting to do some overdue maturing in the space of 12 months. It resulted in a new book of essays, Delusions: of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress, that touches on love, body image, ambition, the hellscape of modern social media and more. She shared 20 hard earned lessons from her 20s…

A quiet conversation at the Kingsmead Book Fair became a reflection on shrinking attention spans, digital culture and the fragile future of reading

From true crime to wellness cults to granular portraits of divorce and grief, here are the best non-fiction page-turners of the year so far.

“I’m probably never going to meditate again. I’m not going to go into a crystal shop. I’m not going to some kind of ceremony or retreat. I don’t even do yoga anymore.”

As the 14th annual Kingsmead Book Fair returns to Johannesburg, the beloved literary gathering once again creates space for difficult conversations, thoughtful reflection and the simple pleasure of sitting with stories in an age defined by distraction

Few bands have expanded the boundaries of popular music as profoundly as The Velvet Underground, nor have had such a lasting influence. Emerging in New York in 1965, the group » Read More

From how to maintain desire in a long-term relationship, to whether heightened intimacy always make for good sex, the renowned psychotherapist’s seminal work still feels fresh 20 years later.

“Her personal library was astonishing,” says Gail Crowther, whose new book shines a light on an unexamined aspect of the Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe: her rich intellectual life.

“My image and my voice have taken on a life of their own,” says Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, whose book, ‘When the World Sleeps’, is published in the UK this week. “I didn’t expect that, but I live it with a great sense of mission.”

From books by ’90s rockstars to ’00s teen actors, here are just a few of the most compulsive memoirs about fame and womanhood.

From ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ to ‘Prozac Nation’ and ‘Generation X’, here are the cult classic books from the ’90s to revisit (or discover for the first time).

Los Angeles often gets described as a place where everything feels possible, but speaking with Anna Dorn, it becomes clear that the city is better understood as a stage for people who know how to perform themselves. Her writing circles ambition, desire, vanity, and collapse with an unbothered clarity that refuses sentiment. The women in […]

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“WHAT IS SHIT but baubles worn by bowels?” asks Canadian author (and now artist) Derek McCormack as the fictive version of proto-punk agitator and entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren in an introduction (dated “London, 1953”) to The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide, an illustrated faux catalogue of fucked-up, Frankensteined bijous. The necromanced preamble doesn’t so much situate the […]

Caro Claire Burke’s novel about a trad wife influencer who wakes up in the 1800s is already being adapted into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. Here’s everything she had to say.

The writer's fourth novel is a work of art for a new age of mechanical reproduction

WŁADYSŁAW STRZEMIŃSKI’S Teoria widzenia (Theory of Seeing), newly translated into English by Klara and Wanda Kemp-Welch, operates on multiple registers at once. Written in the late 1940s, at the onset of the Stalinist consolidation of power in Poland under Moscow’s supervision, and published posthumously in 1958, the book presents itself, on its surface, as a […]

From sleepy Seaford, UK to punk rock’s ground zero, Pamela Rooke (aka Jordan) is a force to be reckoned with. She’s experienced a lifetime of gay underground clubs, worked in » Read More

Journey to the Center of the Cramps is a revised version of Dick Porter’s previous band biography penned in 2007, just two years before Lux’s untimely and unexpected death stopped » Read More

From ’90s classics to books out this summer, here are all the best beach reads to get lost in.

While Michael “Mickey” Bradley’s Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone was originally published in 2016, it’s been recently re-released, likely to coincide with the band’s 50th anniversary of Teenage » Read More