What we read in 2009 [part one]:
Reviewed / Non-fiction:
King Kong Theory - Virginie Despentes
Bad Vibes - Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall - Luke Haines
Disorientations - Travis Jeppesen
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report - Iain Sinclair
Moral Relativism - Steven Lukes
Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far - Richard Bourne
Khomeini’s Ghost - Con Coughlin
Lucky Kunst: The Rise & Fall of Young British Art - Gregor Muir
Direct Red - Gabriel Weston
Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast - Kevin Myers
The Gang of Four: Damaged Gods - Paul Lester
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy - Kenan Malik
Naked Lens: Beat Cinema - Jack Sargeant
Superstar DJs Here We Go!: The Rise and Fall of the Superstar DJ - Dom Phillips
The Meaning of Sarkozy - Alain Badiou
Who is it that can tell me who I am? - Jane Haynes
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood - David Simon & Ed Burns
Albertopolis Disparu - Tony White
Columbine - Dave Cullen
The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 - John Robb
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History - David Aaronovitch
The Years of the Locust: A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing - Jon Hotten
Inside - Jane Kelly
Militant Modernism - Owen Hatherley
Viva South America!: A Journey Through a Restless Continent - Oliver Balch
Filth - Bob Short
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown - Jennifer Scanlon
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea - Tom Reynolds
Loose Watch: Lost and Found Times Anthology - Various
When Skateboards Will Be Free - Said Sayrafiezadeh
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan - Michael Sorkin
This is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood - Hyok Kang
Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows - Roy Sorensen
Will Work for Drugs - Lydia Lunch
The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin’s Legacy - Fern Elsdon-Baker
Rape New York - Jana Leo
Torture Team: Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free - Philippe Sands
Ground Control: Fear & Happiness in the 21st-Century City - Anna Minton
The Case for God: What Religion Really Means - Karen Armstrong
Try Me - Farah Damji
Strange Telescopes - Daniel Kalder
All Consuming - Neal Lawson
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
The Child of the Jago - Arthur Morrison
Savage Messiah - Laura Oldfield Ford
Radical Thinkers: Set 4 - Various
Raising My Voice - Malalai Joya
The Sixties - Jenny Diski
Strange Days Indeed - Francis Wheen
Diaries - George Orwell
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
The Illusion of Freedom: Scotland Under Nationalism - Tom Gallagher
Newspeak in the 21st Century - David Edwards & David Cromwell
Trapped In A Scene: UK Hardcore 1985–1989 - Ian Glasper
Pimp: The Story of My Life - Iceberg Slim
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce - Slavoj Žižek
The Great Silence: 1918-1920, Living in the Shadow of the Great War - Juliet Nicolson
Second Opinion - Theodore Dalrymple
Splendour and Squalor: The Decline & Fall of Three Aristocratic Dynasties - Marcus Scriven
First posted: Friday, January 1st, 2010.
