Books Tricky’s memoir Hell is Round the Corner is a sterling lesson in stoicism Despite the suicides of his mother and eldest daughter, Tricky’s prose is never self-pitying. By Julie Burchill
Music Despite the horror, loneliness and glitter, I have learned to love Christmas music By Julie Burchill
Books Everything I Know About Love is a shockingly intimate memoir from former sex columnist Dolly Alderton By Julie Burchill
Know Your Place is a revelatory self-portrait of the working class There’s a pleasing, utterly unself-pitying sense of anger in this collection of essays. By Julie Burchill
My Hebrew Tuesdays, why modesty is overrated, and how I became a grand dame In this week's diary, Julie Burchill explains why she's returning to the shul – and her secret to good health. By Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill: female desire from maenads to One Direction fans Desire makes us feel fully alive, when even love can’t reach those unsafe spaces that make life worth living. By Julie Burchill
I was going to be the Only Gentile at the Funeral – so I started rending my best skirt Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that we were the only souls in attendance at Brighton’s most depressing crematorium. By Julie Burchill
How do I know that my father loved me? One night at the ballet was all the proof I needed "Nutcracker", he said, looking back over his shoulder and winking at me. By Julie Burchill
Marina Abramović turned attention seeking into a modern art form Reading Abramović's memoir is rather like watching EastEnders: I didn’t learn anything about performance art reading, but I can't deny I… By Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill: why I was wrong to admire Stalin I was pretending to be a punk, a lesbian and a Jew, but at least I could be true… By Julie Burchill
Thirteen going on fifty: Julie Burchill finds her teenage self in Jackie the Musical People can be sniffy about jukebox musicals but in my opinion they are infinitely preferable to overblown and pretentious… By Julie Burchill