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  • Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-90, edited by Glenn Adamson & Jane Pavitt

    Another Good Book | Postmodernism, Style and Subversion, 1970-1990

    "Tomorrow’s Been Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest", reads the title to Derek Jarmen’s chapter in Postmodernism. Taken from his 1987 film The Last of England, the phrase serves as a tagline for the era, which as the V&A’s exhibition showed...

  • The Andy Warhol Diaries

    Another Good Book | The Andy Warhol Diaries

    In this twittering world, Andy Warhol’s chronicle of his glimmering final decade seems pretty well scheduled for its republication. A star-studded (and stud-studded), gorgeously gossipy account of the Pop Art demi-God’s unyielding activity...

  • Then Again by Diane Keaton

    Another Good Book | Then Again by Diane Keaton

    Achieving universal appeal in Hollywood is no easy thing, but Diane Keaton did just that. Amidst the seeming-perfection of innumerable Hollywood stars, hers is a beacon of unconventional beauty that men are drawn to and women, remarkably,...

  • Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks

    Another Good Book | Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks

    Since collaborating on the screenplay for Boys Don’t Cry twelve years ago, Laurie Weeks has made occasional offerings to the world of literature. But she now emerges from the periphery of what’s important to prove that her time has been...

  • Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud By Martin Gayford

    Another Good Book | Man with a Blue Scarf

    Art critic Martin Gayford’s new book is a journal of the year and a half that he spent regularly sitting totally still for hours on end in a chair in a gloomy room while an 82 year-old man painted and repainted his picture with painstaking...

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