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Buggernation Street: "the Filthiest Street in the Country"

An interview with Johnny Monroe, 'the punk Victoria Wood', creator of Coronation Street spoof Buggernation Street, and the notorious BBC...

Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah, by Ian Buruma

A review of Ian Buruma's Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah, and an overview of Spinoza's concept of freedom Baruch de Spinoza Of the several...

Night of the Hunter, a Southern Gothic Grotesquerie

Last Summer Penguin launched their Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series, and there are now twenty-nine titles in the collection....