New Statesman - <![CDATA[Charlotte Raven]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/charlotte_raven en <![CDATA[Everybody do the dinosaur]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/09/past-jam-present-weller-music http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/09/past-jam-present-weller-music Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:48:21 GMT Charlotte Raven From the Brontės to brontosaurus, we are indulging a perilous obsession with the past

]]> <![CDATA[Victims of our own excess]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2009/09/fashion-women-clothes-woman http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2009/09/fashion-women-clothes-woman Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:19:24 GMT Charlotte Raven Since the mid-1990s, feminist opposition to fashion has all but evaporated. But are all these must-have It bags, new-season dresses and vertiginous heels really making women happy?

]]> <![CDATA[Body of evidence]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200606190055 http://www.newstatesman.com/200606190055 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven Heartbreak: the political memoir of a feminist militant Andrea Dworkin Continuum, 232pp, £14.99 ISBN 0465017533

]]> <![CDATA[Sick to the core. We know that Pop Idol is commercially driven trash. But are most "quality" offerings, such as Lost in Translation, really any better? charlotte raven despairs at the emptiness of modern culture]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200511140036 http://www.newstatesman.com/200511140036 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? The encyclopedia of modern life Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur Time Warner Books, 277pp, £9.99 ISBN 0316729531

]]> <![CDATA[Fiction - Sad people]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160037 http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160037 Mon, 16 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven A Long Way Down Nick Hornby Viking, 272pp, £17.99 ISBN 0670888249

]]> <![CDATA[NS Essay - Drink and be damned]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200502070021 http://www.newstatesman.com/200502070021 Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven New laws won't reduce our frantic consumption of alcohol. Booze occupies a hole in our core sense of identity which used to be filled by music or politics

]]> <![CDATA[The great unwatched]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200309010028 http://www.newstatesman.com/200309010028 Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven Television - Charlotte Raven discovers there's more to BBC4 than opera classes and classic novels

]]> <![CDATA[To the manor born]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250027 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250027 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven Television - Charlotte Raven on an all-action reality show that exploits everyone equally

]]> <![CDATA[The genuine article. In our ironic, consumer-driven society, is there any such thing as authenticity? No, writes Charlotte Raven. Exploited by advertisers selling everything from organic chocolate to Agas, the desire for a return to "reality" has become simply another lifestyle fad]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308040025 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308040025 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven Authenticity: brands, fakes, spin and the lust for real life David Boyle Flamingo, 315pp, £12.99

]]> <![CDATA[Darkness visible. Reading Elizabeth Wurtzel has forced Charlotte Raven to confront the truth about her own struggle with depression]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200203180047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200203180047 Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:00:00 GMT Charlotte Raven More, Now, Again Elizabeth Wurtzel Virago Press, 333pp, £12.99 ISBN 186049918X

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