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Drugs and the world

review by Mike Jay

"Since it began in earnest in the 1970s, the illicit drugs market has become, after oil and arms, the largest commodity trade on the planet."

Dylan's visions of sin

review by Michael Griffin

An academic's take on Mr Zimmerman.

The eager dead

review by Tom Ruffles

A spectacularly odd (and true) tale of adultery, communicating with the dead and the spirit-child who was to bring harmony to Earth

Early discourses on colour and cinema

review by Tom Ruffles

"By calibrating colour verisimilitude on Caucasian flesh tones, Kinemacolor's relationship with reality was culturally constructed..."

Echolalias

review by Laurence O'Dwyer

A scholarly and poetic book about language.

The economics of innocent fraud

review by Noel Rooney

"The book is either a caveat so tentative no one will heed it, or a poison so subtle only a small bottle was needed."

Edging into the future

review by Steve Penn

A parson's egg of lit crit.

The edifice complex

review by Robert Philbin

Architecture as propaganda for the powerful (if not solace for the peaceful practitioner)

The education of the eye

review by Tom Ruffles

Ah, the glory days before health and safety education ruined education...

Empire of the stars

review by Ian Simmons

Bad blood and black holes.