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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 [...]

When we were schoolchildren, our geography books always fell open at the same page through years of use by those who had preceded us in the class: the smudgy pictures [...]

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 sixties fashions were coming back. Julie Burchill analysed why they were popular in the mid-eighties Edie Sedgwick was Girl of the Year, Ready Steady Go and The Avengers played [...]

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 [...]