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Ideas
Everybody do the dinosaur
17 September 2009

From the Brontës to brontosaurus, we are indulging a perilous obsession with the past

Lifestyle
Victims of our own excess
03 September 2009

Since the mid-1990s, feminist opposition to fashion has all but evaporated. But are all these must-h

Books
Body of evidence
19 June 2006

Reviewed: Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Militant Feminist by Andrea Dworkin.

Books
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
14 November 2005

Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? The encyclopedia of modern life

Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur

Books
Fiction - Sad people
16 May 2005

A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby Viking, 272pp, £17.99

ISBN 0670888249

Ideas
NS Essay - Drink and be damned
07 February 2005

New laws won't reduce our frantic consumption of alcohol. Booze occupies a hole in our core sense of

TV and Radio
The great unwatched
01 September 2003

Television - Charlotte Raven discovers there's more to BBC4 than opera classes and classic novels

TV and Radio
To the manor born
25 August 2003

Television - Charlotte Raven on an all-action reality show that exploits everyone equally

Books
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 s
04 August 2003

Authenticity: brands, fakes, spin and the lust for real life

David Boyle Flamingo, 315pp, £12.

Books
Darkness visible. Reading Elizabeth Wurtzel has forced Charlotte Raven to confront the truth about her own struggle with depression
18 March 2002

More, Now, Again

Elizabeth Wurtzel Virago Press, 333pp, £12.99

ISBN 186049918X

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