Lester Young fading away in a hotel room: Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle: Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano…In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes...
In this powerful and insightful critique, the author examines the evolution of the Indian middle class during the twentieth century, especially since Independence
A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman
Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought: the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs: and the legendary number of...
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