Andrew Hussey
Articles by Andrew Hussey
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Society
Here comes the sun
- 16 June 2003
Liverpool, once despised and feared throughout Britain, has been crowned the European Capital of Culture 2008. It may never be "the Barcelona of the north", but for Andrew Hussey, it is still the most spectacular city in the world
Books
The atrocity exhibition. "One artist filmed himself as he sliced off his own testicles." Andrew Hussey reads a trenchant and invigorating attack on the decadence and extremity of the contemporary visual arts
- 14 April 2003
Art and Fear Paul Virilio Continuum, 115pp, £14.99 ISBN 0826460801
World Affairs
A country on the edge
- 17 March 2003
Andrew Hussey in Morocco finds, behind the tolerance that attracts tourists, a fierce Islamist resurgence, with cut throats and attacks on unveiled women
Books
Bookmarks - Andrew Hussey on Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night
- 02 December 2002
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine ISBN 0714541397
Life & Society
"Wonderful country France . . . pity about the French." From the "Queen of the world" to the "corpse of an old whore" - Andrew Hussey on changing views of Paris
- 11 November 2002
Seven Ages of Paris: portrait of a city Alistair Horne Macmillan, 520pp, £25 ISBN 0333725778
Ideas
The game of war
- 09 September 2002
The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner Verso, 52pp, £8 ISBN 1859844111 Ground Zero Paul Virilio, translated by Chris Turner Verso, 82pp, £8 Welcome to Desert of the Real Slavoj Zizek Verso, 154pp, £8
Culture
French letters
- 02 September 2002
Pornography has long enjoyed avant-garde respectability in France. So why is the left giving it such a whipping? asks Andrew Hussey
Books
The pornographer's manifesto. Dark, unsettling, alienated, enraged - Michel Houellebecq's latest novel confirms him as the most percipient chronicler of our era. By Andrew Hussey
- 19 August 2002
Platform Michel Houellebecq William Heinemann, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 043400989X
Ideas
Andrew Hussey on the disturbed life and pornographic work of one of the great "accursed writers" of France
- 12 August 2002
Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography Michel Surya, translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson Verso, 588pp, £25 ISBN 1859848222
