Culture Conjuring the ghost: the “shape-shifting, queer, violent, hippie genuis“ of David Litvinoff A new biography tracks down the elusive Kray confidant who became a friend of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. By Colin MacCabe
20 years after his death, we still know so little of Derek Jarman A facsimile of his only book of poems, A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, and a new book of… By Colin MacCabe
The Philosopher, the Priest and the Painter by Stephen Nadler: Descartes goes Dutch An admirable portrait of Descartes’s life in the Netherlands, but one which gives no sense of the strangeness of… By Colin MacCabe
Salman Rushdie versus the mullocracy Colin MacCabe reviews "Joseph Anton: a Memoir". By Colin MacCabe