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Most things about DBC Pierres violently satirical debut novel, Vernon God Little, are remarkable and some are just inimitable, writes Jonathan Heawood Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre Faber 12.99, pp277

Anne Tyler is indelibly tied to the city, but authors as contrasting as Frederick Douglass and John Waters have shown some of its different faces When I began writing novels set in my home town of Baltimore, the living writer most identified with the city was Anne Tyler. More than two decades later, thats still

The governor of Illinois went viral with a speech about seeing idiots in ones midst. I have a few pointers of my own to offer If you want to be successful in this world, you have to develop your own idiot detection system, the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, recently told the Northwestern University Class

Surprise fame has found bands decades after they recorded music, including a group who originally made an album when they were just 11 years old In December 2021, a band called Panchiko played a gig. Hundreds of fans were there, at Metronome in Nottingham, England, singing along to their songs. All of this might seem

Four decades ago, on 30 March 1974, the Ramones played their first gig in New York. Four months after celebrating this momentous anniversary, the bands founder has died aged 62. We look back on their life in music, from their eponymous debut album to their time spent with Marc Bolan and Debbie Harry