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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
26 August
Culture
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 sketches, thoughts and quotations, brings Jarman's art into fuller and more luminous perspective.
By Colin MacCabe
20 February
Culture
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 Descartes’s vision.
By Colin MacCabe
29 May
Culture
Salman Rushdie versus the mullocracy
Colin MacCabe reviews "Joseph Anton: a Memoir".
By Colin MacCabe
19 September
Culture
The finest flower of comparative philology
Saussure - review.
By Colin MacCabe
05 September
Culture
A tale of two theories
Sacked by Cambridge University amid accusations of heroin-dealing and terrorist links, he became t
By Colin MacCabe
26 September
Culture
Citizen Cannes: the Man Behind the Cannes Festival
By Colin MacCabe
01 August
Culture
Bento's Sketchbook
By Colin MacCabe
02 June
Culture
Green's Dictionary of Slang
By Colin MacCabe
06 January
Culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Poet in the Laboratory
By Colin MacCabe
04 November

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