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Mat Collishaw is art’s Mr Nasty

25.09.09
He was raised in a strange Christian cult and dates a taxidermist. No wonder, then, that Mat Collishaw is fêted as the most macabre of the YBAs... more

Sounds of London: Music that defines the capital

03.07.09
In an extract from Paul Du Noyer's exhilarating new history of the music that defines the capital, he recalls an early meeting with quintessentially London singer Amy Winehouse... more

Salute to Ballard and his grim hinterlands

24.04.09
"Oh to be in England, now that April's here." There's a unique feeling - part-pleasurable, part-sad - about arriving back into a London airport after you've been away for a fortnight or so. I think it has to do with the architecture... more

He was my friend, my mentor – the greatest writer London had

21.04.09
JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute to his foremost literary inspiration and remembers an extraordinary and gentle man... more

Generous spirit behind visions of a bleak future

20.04.09
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Partner tells of unconvential life with literary giant JG Ballard

20.04.09
For 40 years, author J G Ballard and his partner Claire Walsh enjoyed an unconventional relationship, living in separate homes several miles apart... more

Ben Moor's upside-down world

03.11.08
Ben Moor is obsessed with the past and future. In his latest intriguing monologue, Not Everything Is Significant, he unites his fixations.... more

Film maker's widow wins £2m for fatal blunders by three GPs

02.10.08
The widow of one of Britain's leading documentary makers has won damages in the High Court from three London doctors who failed to spot and treat his heart disease... more

There's only one Etonian Dave's MPs should read

05.08.08
So much for social diversity. David Cameron has given his MPs a summer reading list of 37 titles, which includes a book by his Etonian contemporary David Runciman, a memoir by Cameron's OE cousin Ferdinand Mount, and no fewer than two books about another famous OE, Boris Johnson... more

What to do in London this week

23.06.08
Visit Shoreditch for a weekend of culture, try Ruby Blue for a fun evening out and see Kevin Spacey in a new light at the Larger Than Life exhibition.... more

Stop writing if you must - but we won't stop reading

01.04.08
It is the ultimate literary scare story: the Society of Authors has said its 8,500 members are so worried about declining incomes because of internet publishing that they may stop writing books. Is this a threat or a prediction?... more

Spinning a yarn - just the job for Campbell

26.02.08
Perhaps we should not be so surprised by the news that Alastair Campbell has become a novelist at the age of 50. After all, as a Downing Street spin doctor, he was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit. To be published in November, his debut, All in the Mind, is the story of a psychiatrist, his patients and family and "the pressures they bring to bear on each other'' over a long weekend... more

The boy behind the man

15.02.08
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