Juvenilia and Other Delinquencies: An Interview With Jon Savage
Several key Romantic works – including Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (which reads, in part, like a Morrissey lyric) and Coleridge’s “Monody on the Death of Chatterton” – mine this deep seam of youthful morbidity that of course has become a major part of commercial youth culture.
Andrew Gallix talks to Jon Savage about Teenage and the birth of youth culture.
The Taqwacores
It’s a statement when a government decides on and implements a ban on a book. It says that the ideas contained within its pages are a threat to a status quo and that that idea is something that someone in power would rather a larger population did not think. The Taqwacores was banned in Malaysia, and a kneejerk reaction to its publication around Europe is almost certainly predictable.
Pete Carvill reviews Michael Muhammad Knight‘s The Taqwacores.