Books

How important is the truth when it comes to literary autobiography?

The state of literary criticism today

Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay ‘Radical Chic’ explores the decadent relationship between wealth, glamour and extremist politics – and is as relevant today as it was 34 years ago

Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas

A new anthology of Rimbaud's work

Theodor Adorno's centenary

The British Library's recordings of writers and poets

Marie Darrieussecq's A Brief Stay with the Living

Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis

Two new novels by graphic designers

The Pleasure of Aphorisms

The Mythologizing of Roland Barthes

Alan Clayson's biography of Edgard Varèse

Pocko Editions' Pocket-Sized Art Books

Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Love, truth and radical politics in the philosophy of Alain Badiou

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Emily Thompson's The Soundscape of Modernity

W. G. Sebald's use of Language

Childrens Books