Tag Archives: suicide

Ove is a pedantic and irascible curmudgeon. In the housing association (which he used to run), he accosts everyone who incurs the tiniest infraction of the regulations and has lost all patience with time-wasters, bureaucrats, and slackers. When this belligerent ...

In the rich tapestry of fiction, modern horror has been worn threadbare. Finding an original idea, not to mention one that is genuinely chilling, is becoming increasingly difficult. HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt valiantly hits home on the former, but ...

I like to pretend I’m not, but when it comes down to it, I’m a book snob. All I really knew about John Green was that he wrote The Fault in Our Stars and the premise of that story sounded ...

The streets throng with people outside Barbican’s bricked barricades. The day Suicide are holding their Punk Mass in London, not only is the Great City Race passing by but the London Underground’s enduring its first complete strike in 13 years. ...

To live outside the law, you must be honest. – American proverb People forget that Hunter Stockton Thompson was serious. He devised gonzo journalism, pitching that in a phoney culture full of obfuscation and disengenuity, embedded and exaggerated subjectivity often ...

‘Teenage angst has paid off well/Now I’m bored and old’ So arrived Kurt Cobain’s disinterested sneer on what was to become Nirvana’s final studio statement. In the wake of the band’s monster-selling second album Nevermind – and breakout single ‘Smells ...

My teenage years are sadly long behind me, but that does not mean that I can’t appreciate a well-crafted teen movie. Teen movies have a bad reputation and it is true that many of them are soulless, crude, sappy, or ...

About six months ago I was talking to a friend about what we had been reading recently. In her handbag was Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It was one of those books that she loved to reread ...