Tricky’s memoir Hell is Round the Corner is a sterling lesson in stoicism
Despite the suicides of his mother and eldest daughter, Tricky’s prose is never self-pitying.
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Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill is a journalist and author. Her work includes the 2004 novel Sugar Rush, which was adapted for television in 2005.
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Know Your Place is a revelatory self-portrait of the working class
There’s a pleasing, utterly unself-pitying sense of anger in this collection of essays.
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Julie Burchill: female desire from maenads to One Direction fans
Desire makes us feel fully alive, when even love can’t reach those unsafe spaces that make life worth living.
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I was going to be the Only Gentile at the Funeral – so I started rending my best skirt
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that we were the only souls in attendance at Brighton’s most depressing crematorium.
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How do I know that my father loved me? One night at the ballet was all the proof I needed
"Nutcracker", he said, looking back over his shoulder and winking at me.
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Marina Abramović turned attention seeking into a modern art form
Reading Abramović's memoir is rather like watching EastEnders: I didn’t learn anything about performance art reading, but I can't deny I…
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Julie Burchill: why I was wrong to admire Stalin
I was pretending to be a punk, a lesbian and a Jew, but at least I could be true…
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Thirteen going on fifty: Julie Burchill finds her teenage self in Jackie the Musical
People can be sniffy about jukebox musicals but in my opinion they are infinitely preferable to overblown and pretentious…
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