Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis opens Spirit of Eden, the band’s penultimate record from 1988, with the line, “Oh yeah, world’s turned upside down.” The lyric, sung in Hollis’s unmistakably sonorous… Read more »

In “a satirical gesture, just to let off some impotent steam,” author Michel Faber has sent a gratis copy of his latest (and, he says, his final) novel, The Book… Read more »