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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

The Guardian - UK

Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

James Rebanks: ‘I was a closet reader for years’

The author on having to keep his love of books a secret as a child, struggling with JG Ballard, and the Russian poem he says is the ‘best thing I’ve ever read’

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Climate Change

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The Mary Sue

An AI-powered Coca-Cola ad campaign mistakenly invented a book by a famous author

A new ad campaign from Coca-Cola appears to mistakenly attribute a non-existent J.G. Ballard work to the author.

Fortune

This dark 2015 sci-fi movie took me by surprise – now it's on Netflix

High-Rise is a weird but excellent film

The Position of Spoons and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – an absorbing essay collection

The award-winning author’s thoughts on JG Ballard, Colette and…lemons

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The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

The Guardian - UK

Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about fatherhood

The author of Going Home, an acclaimed novel about the effects of unexpected fatherhood on a thirtysomething man, shares his favourites

The Guardian - UK

Is fashion finally slowing down? Prada, Marni, and Stella McCartney shone a spotlight on slower and more sustainable fashion at this year's Met Gala

The Met Gala has never been for the masses, but its impact—whether good or bad—reverberates.

Marie Claire

Ballardian fantasy or nightmare? This is how Met Gala guests interpreted 'The Garden of Time' dress code

Here's who nailed the theme

Marie Claire

Met Gala Theme Revealed: 'The Garden Of Time'

Explore J.G. Ballard's dystopian world in 'The Garden of Time' and his lasting influence on art, film, and literature.

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Celebrities turn out for Met Gala in high fashion – as it happened

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Martin Bax obituary

Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit

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Christopher Priest obituary

Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould

MusicRadar

How Gary Numan's unexpected discovery of the Minimoog paved the way for The Pleasure Principle and the birth of synth-pop: "I just pressed a key and it made that famous Moog sound, that low growl and the room vibrated. It was the most powerful thing"

"I was trying to prove that electronic music was valid in its own right"

The Guardian - AU

Salamander review – Brisbane festival opens with a world-class dance epic

Inspired by JG Ballard’s The Drowned World and set in a Perspex maze created by Beyoncé’s stage designer, this dystopian dance-theatre show is truly unique

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Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis

From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be lost for things to do and see in one of the world’s largest cities

The Guardian - UK

Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke review – a total trip

A fugitive seeks refuge in a 1960s commune in the Lake District, in an energetic novel that captures an era

Space

Best Love, Death + Robots episodes

Netflix’s science fiction anthology certainly features Love, Death + Robots, but which episodes from three seasons shine the brightest?

The Guardian - UK

‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The Guardian - UK

M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate ChatGPT’

The titan of literary science fiction on AI hype, writing his ‘anti-memoir’, and his take on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

The Guardian - UK

Róisín Murphy: ‘I commit to the point where it could be dangerous’

After 30 years of pop that refuses the easy path, the ex-Moloko singer has made the best album of her career. She discusses confronting audiences, timid record execs – and her own mortality

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Manchester City’s perfection is laced with coldness and unease

A hard regime’s soft-power project is reaching its final expression – footballing brilliance but a sense of dislocation

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