Charlotte Raven
Articles by Charlotte Raven
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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-have It bags, new-season dresses and vertiginous heels really making women happy?
Books
Body of evidence
- 19 June 2006
Heartbreak: the political memoir of a feminist militant Andrea Dworkin Continuum, 232pp, £14.99 ISBN 0465017533
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 Time Warner Books, 277pp, £9.99 ISBN 0316729531
Culture
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 identity which used to be filled by music or politics
Television
The great unwatched
- 01 September 2003
Television - Charlotte Raven discovers there's more to BBC4 than opera classes and classic novels
Television
To the manor born
- 25 August 2003
Television - Charlotte Raven on an all-action reality show that exploits everyone equally
Media
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
- 04 August 2003
Authenticity: brands, fakes, spin and the lust for real life David Boyle Flamingo, 315pp, £12.99
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
