Forty years after The Damned released New Rose they're currently touring the UK. The genial Captain Sensible got in touch to tell us about his favourite LPs, from Stereolab to the Bee Gees, Soft Machine to Felt and Jimi Hendrix. Damned live photo by Dod Morrison.
One of the TLS' books of the year, Jen Calleja explores Sophie Collins' translation as activism through her recent Test Centre anthology, Currently & Emotion, and discusses contemporary translation, readership and the pleasures and pains of putting together a book. (Portrait of Vahni Capildeo by Richard Phœnix)