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| The Guest |
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| For many millennia, heterosexual men on the prowl laboured under the misconception that, in order to convince heterosexual women to sleep with them, it would be necessary to somehow please them. |
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| The Secret History Of Rock'n'Roll |
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| In Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow’s narrator Charles Citrine has an enthusiasm for reading an encyclopaedia of religion, claiming that his contemporary America was rife with recurrent types found therein. The indications are that Citrine is thinking especially of the counterculture. |
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| Thee Psychick Bible |
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| Not to seem too facile, but there is definitely an analogy to be made between the punk and new wave/industrial groups that appeared at the end of the 1970s and the magical and occult currents which emerged at the same time, such as chaos magic. |
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| Hip Pocket Sleaze Files |
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| 'He was a saint to a "family" of potheads. And he led them on a freaked-out sex-and-blood bath that picked up where the brutal Sharon Tate killings left off.' |
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| The Anthology of Rap |
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| Yale University Press’s assemblage of an Anthology of Rap is the latest milestone in literature’s lethargic admittance of hip hop into its fusty purlieus. |
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| Art for Death's Sake |
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| When the Comics Magazine Association of America established the Comics Code in 1954, not only was salacious, suggestive, violent and horrific content banished from comic books but an entire industry was decimated. |
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| The Pregnant Widow |
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| In a recent article concerning his terminally ill Best Friend Forever Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis paraphrased King Lear, saying that every author knows how much "sharper than a serpent's tooth it is" to have "thankless readers." |
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| Freedom |
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| Am I alone in wanting to be disappointed by an almost-universally acclaimed 'masterpiece'? |
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| The Slap |
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| Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap is a literary novel so viscerally compelling that it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. |
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| Last Bus To Bray |
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| Entertainment is like a job in a factory, on a production line to help carry it along. Ideas fall off it that never make it to the screen. |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos |
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| Very few adherents of the works of HP Lovecraft and writers associated with his august name will not welcome this well-written and thought-provoking volume by the indefatigable ST Joshi. |
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| God's Assassins |
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| My sixteen year old brother recently attained the dubious distinction of being the first member of my family (for the last three generations, at least) to be booted out of secondary school. |
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| World of Zines |
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| Round up and reviews of zines. Plus interviews with those people associated with them. |
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| Guide to the CounterCulture |
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| This book is more than a guide to culture ‘out there’, it is culture in its own right: unfettered, no-holds-barred dispatches from the underground. |
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