Leave The Capital
Paul Hanley's history of Manchester music in 13 recordings, and how two recording studios facilitated a musical revolution that would be defined by its rejection of the capital.| www.route-online.com
Paul Hanley's history of Manchester music in 13 recordings, and how two recording studios facilitated a musical revolution that would be defined by its rejection of the capital.| www.route-online.com
What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. Through history, personal experience and popular culture| Verso
Read 14/12/2019-04/01/2020 Rating 4 stars I found Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women a difficult read. It’s essential in its content and the topics Perez shines a light on, but I f…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Mister N is about a novelist who has lost his sanity. He has left his apartment, he says, because he could no longer live in the shadow of a high rise being built alongside it. He has checked into …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Leave the Capital is wonderful. Informative, chatty and funny, it traces a path from the 1960s to the 1990s and argues that a handful of Mancunian bands who were also-rans in the Beatles era paved …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In its flap copy and its cover blurbs, Feminist City is framed as a treatise on how urban spaces have ended up so gendered and how a different way of thinking about cities and the people who live a…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
From one forgotten author to another. I’m still reluctant to return to the second book I picked up for 10 Books of Summer and instead have chosen Traces of Enayat, Iman Mersal’s account…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
I started my 10 Books of Summer badly with a book I’m finding quite dry. I was delighted, therefore, when my library reservation for Caliban Shrieks came available and I could put my chosen r…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
