Jonathan Coe

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06 October 2026 22:26

Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.

Adam Shatz

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05 October 2026 17:11

My new book(FSG, June 2027) explores, among others: John and Alice Coltrane, Ornette, Nina Simone, Bill Dixon, Don Cherry, Mingus, Miles, Hendrix, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Hemphill, Marion Brown, the AACM, Amina Claudine Myers, Jeanne Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn… us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

John Harris

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03 October 2026 16:24

We're becoming a better country by the day, I reckon

Heather Burns

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17 September 2026 17:43

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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