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Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation

In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction

Books

Clampdown: Britpop Culture Wars, Kenickie & Shampoo

In an extract from her new book, Rhian E Jones discusses the relationship between Britpop culture - via Shampoo and Kenickie - social class and gender

Books

Jim Joyce – It Darkens, Brother (Short Story, In Full)

From the forthcoming anthology The Way We Sleep, a portrait in words and graphic illustration of the intimate and uncharted continent of evening, The Quietus presents It Darkens, Brother - a short story by Jim Joyce

Books

READ: Nirvana – The Recording Sessions

The Quietus presents a short extract, from the book by Rob Jovanovic, released this year for the first time in the UK

Books

Thy Will Be Done: J.G. Ballard Interviewed by Toby Litt

Taken from the newly released Extreme Metaphors, collecting interviews with J.G. Ballard over his forty-eight year career, British author Toby Litt introduces an extract from his 2006 interview with the 'Seer of Shepperton' on fascism and his then-new novel Kingdom Come

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READ: *F**k The Radio, We’ve Got Apple Juice*

In an extract from her book, F**k the Radio, We've Got Apple Juice, Miranda Ward muses on those first, all-consuming effects of music in our formative years and the role of music as a tool for communication

READ: Rex Brown’s Pantera Memoir

In advance of its publication tomorrow, The Quietus presents an exclusive extract from Rex Brown of Pantera's new memoir

READ: Dazzling Darkness by Rachel Mann

The Quietus presents an extract from Rachel Mann's Dazzling Darkness, a personal revelation and social study on sexuality, change and God

READ: Matthew Ingram’s Big Book Of Woe

The Quietus presents an extract, in the form of an interview from 2004 with musician Stuart Argabright, from Matthew "Woebot" Ingram's recently published collected writings - the Big Book of Woe

READ: I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol

The Quietus presents an exclusive extract from the reissued autobiography of Glen Matlock, Sex Pistol and "Marcel Duchamp of the fretboard"

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A Quietus Interview

21st Century Tropicalia Sérgio Dias Baptista Of Os Mutantes On Their Return

The greatest Brazilian band of the 60s - the revolutionary and psychedelic tropicalia outfit Os Mutantes - have returned with a new album. Frances Morgan talks to Sérgio Dias Baptista about its long gestation. Photographs by Nino Andres

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Extract

Articles 5

Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation

Clampdown: Britpop Culture Wars, Kenickie & Shampoo