Michael Brooks’s blend of fiction and quantum physics is bonkers but curiously effective
The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook re-imagines the Renaissance doctor, astrologer, and mathematician Girolamo Cardano as an angel guiding the reader.
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Grown-up wild child: Astrid Lindgren, the steely Swedish writer behind Pippi Longstocking
In a way, Lindgren is a metaphor for Sweden itself.
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How classically trained German musicians in their mid-thirties became modern musical touchstones
Rather than falling in with the pretentious, dungeons and dragons world of early 1970s “progressive” rock, Can did their own…
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Journalism’s lord of misrule: the gonzo philosophy of Hunter S Thompson
Who Killed Hunter S Thompson? is a big and beautiful compendium of friends’ reminiscences of the infamous writer.
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You Think It, I’ll Say It: Curtis Sittenfeld’s new story collection shows how the personal is political
If social politics dominates these stories, national politics nibbles at the edges of them.
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Hearts on their sleeves: what drives us to get – and often regret – tattoos?
In his Edinburgh clinic, the GP Gavin Francis sees more than his fair share of tattoos that ordinarily go unseen…
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A whiter shade of hate: the long history of the American far right
How Donald Trump combined the polar opposites of Aryan nationalism and the American Dream.
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David Peace’s Patient X is a clumsy reimagining of the works of writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Peace’s treatment reads rather like a cover version in which the singer has added a load of unnecessary oohs and ahhs.
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