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David Barker, the editor, has definitely put some non-canonical albums into the mix, as well as some quirky choices from canonical bands. But I think it's fair comment to say that a lot of the series deals in Mojo-esque canonical fare. I guess the market for books focused on a single album is...

Heroes/Idiot covers = Roquairol by Erich Heckel I'm dubious about a John Foxx influence on these albums. I'd say that in the mid-seventies there were all these people - Bowie, Eno, Foxx included - who were circling around similar ideas drawn in part from the modernism of the early to mid-20th...

But to answer the question, I don't have much time for those Granta writers of the eighties. Ishiguru I think has produced some genuinely great things. But too many of these writers indulged in a sort of "naive postmodernism" which feels jejune and outdated now. You wince now every time...

This might have been true back in the days of high modernism, but it's certainly not true now. The proof is that when "literary" novels are adapted for the screen, they inevitably turn out to be middle-brow movies for the middle classes, and not arthouse. Examples: McEwen's "Enduring Love"...

Bowie's Warszawa is in an imaginary language.