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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Trackers by Charles Frazier and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.

Sinéad Gleeson reviews impressive new books on art by Lauren Elkin and Laura Cumming

Featuring the work of Kathy Acker, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann and more, Lauren Elkin’s new book Art Monsters is a daring meditation on artists and writers whose work speaks from the body. Here, she talks about excess and monstrosity

From Seattle's grunge scene to New York's queer rave community, these 10 books published in 2023 traverse the underground in the untold stories of music scenes.

Lauren Elkin’s study of rule-breaking female artists is admirable in intention – but the execution is contradictory and confused

Francis McKee, who has served as the Director of CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow for the last eighteen years, will be departing at the end…

Francis McKee, who has served as the Director of CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow for the last eighteen years, will be departing at the end…

A new restoration is screening at Bristol’s Cinema Rediscovered alongside films inspired by post-punk New York in the 1980s and a strand of blacklisted directors

Elkin’s capacious survey of female artists who focused on the body might have worked better as a collection of essays

From Lewis to Tokyo via Leith: 10 highlights from the 2023 Edinburgh film festival