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When I think back to my time as a punk, the seven stages of grief--shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing and acceptance--invariably cross my mind. Luckily I quit being one [...]

Walk Through Walls: a Memoir Marina Abramovic, with James Kaplan Fig Tree, 370pp. 20 £ I'd never heard of Marina Abramovic, but those nice people at Wikipedia tell me that, [...]

Hell is Round the Corner Tricky Blink Publishing, 352pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Adrian Thaws never fails to live up to his stage name--how many autobiographies have you read that start [...]

Unmasked: a Memoir Andrew Lloyd Webber HarperCollins, 517pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Poring over pictures of Andrew Lloyd Webber has never been a pet perve of mine, but you wouldn't have [...]

The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture Paul Gorman Thames & Hudson, 352pp. 34.95[pounds sterling] 'We are all vain at times,' Mr Pooter famously smugged after Carrie [...]

Music is generally the place where you can hide yourself from life when it all gets too much, or too little. But what happens when music--in public places, and blaring [...]

Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton Fig Tree, 336pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] Until recently, I would have placed dating columnists somewhere between car-testers and topiary-correspondents in the hack hierarchy [...]

Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class Edited by Nathan Connolly Dead Ink Books, 180pp, 15.99 [pounds sterling] Has there ever been a more interesting [...]

It took me four decades to learn the lesson that meeting your musical heroes is a dish best sampled cold, with a long spoon, alone with an imaginary conversation in [...]

International Happiness Day is on 20 March. There is something inherently funny about this, implying as it does that the rest of the year may be wilfully abandoned to misery. [...]

Poor, modest, teetotal, self-sacrificing: Y--was the exact opposite of me. But somehow we just clicked and became best friends. Just before Y--'s mother died, she told Y--that they were Jewish. [...]

My late father was an accidental feminist. He left school at 14 and became a communist trade union organiser, most at home in a world where men gathered in smoky [...]

The Brighton motto was In Deo Fidemus -In God We Have Faith. Pretty cheeky for what must be one of the most godless towns in England. Funnily enough, a couple [...]

Jackie: the Musical Theatre Royal, Brighton Stepping inside the Theatre Royal, Brighton on a frisky Friday night, I swear I got an immediate contact high from the fumes of Prosecco [...]

The authors discuss their views on the issue of whether Great Britain should remain a member of the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking asserting that Great Britain should remain with the EU for security and economic reasons, Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly stating that membership benefits British art and the British public in general and barrister Helena Kennedy claiming that being part of the EU means sharing ideas with others.

Moazzam Begg compares his own experience at Guantanamo Bay with that of Africans taken to the US as slaves (Observations, 26 June). But he doesn't stop there. He remarks that [...]

It is not 'sinister', as Darcus Howe suggests (24 November), that the settled immigrant groups in this country, black and Asian, resent the endless deluge of white economic migrants from [...]

A personal narrative is presented in which the author reflects on her appreciation for Christmas music despite feelings of loneliness.

The author talks about Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin who turned Russia into a superpower to match the U.S. Topics include why she saw Stalin as a romantic hero after the death of his wife, Stalin's reputation as a peasant who outlived communism's intellectuals, and the possibility that Stalin was mad due to the torture he underwent at the hands of the tsarist police.

The author ruminates about International Happiness Day on March 20th, observes that celebrities living in the public eye should avoid avoid claiming modesty and humbleness on social media, and her overall good health and avoidance of physicians.

A personal narrative is presented of the author's experience attending the funeral of a friend's mother who had just before she died revealed that the family was Jewish.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comments on the Mark Lynas essay regarding the biosphere; Refuting of a point made in a Darcus Howe article about Shahid Malik; Response to the Jack O'Sullivan article "End of the sex war"; Disagreement with the assessment of David Boyle in "Is this how to end public service failure?"; Comment on Andrew Martin's column on recycling; Net Nanny problems in the article by John Kampfner; More.