Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human review - charting our age-old relationship with music The futility of capturing music with words shows in this beguiling attempt at “big history”
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott: Failures of State review - a devastating exposé, slightly mistimed Precipitous publication may mean this feat of research fails to make its mark
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Polly Barton: Fifty Sounds review - what is lost in translation How to understand a language if you don't understand yourself
- To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked.
- C oming Undone is not about how White escaped from a horrific childhood in a Derbyshire village to the bright lights of New York City. Rather, it's about how her childhood trailed her as she sought.
Andrea Bajani: If You Kept a Record of Sins review - where blame, grief and discovery meet Irresistibly spare narrative reckons with a mother’s death in Romania
Will Page: Tarzan Economics - a 'rockonomist' writes A lively book with a music industry slant
Extract: TV by Susan Bordo On 75 years of changing TV, changing habits and the relationship between TV and Trump
theartsdesk Q&A: Author Sam Mills on the phenomenon of the 'chauvo-feminist' The novelist and non-fiction writer discusses #MeToo and her latest long-form essay
Charles Saumarez Smith: The Art Museum In Modern Times review – the story of modern architecture Former director of London's National Gallery explores recent architectural achievements
Craig Taylor: New Yorkers - A City and Its People in Our Time review I'll take Manhattan - any time
Prix Pictet: Confinement review - a year in photographs Prize-winning photographers respond to the pandemic
Coming Undone Terri White Guardian
Alan Warner: Kitchenly 434 review – dreams and delusions in the backwaters of fame A bittersweet comic idyll from the last days of prog-rock
Coming Undone By Terri White
Edward St Aubyn: Double Blind review - constructing 'cognition literature' Psychoanalysis meets fiction in this original study of human emotion