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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Creative Accounting

David Runciman

  • Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen

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David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.

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In a Pomegranate Chandelier
T.J. Clark on Benedict Anderson

Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy
Hal Foster on Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Cultre by John Seabrook

Seriously Uncool
Jenny Diski: Susan Sontag

‘Don’t be afraid to copy it out’
Peter Wollen remembers Kathy Acker

The Cult of Celebrity
Jacqueline Rose on the cult of celebrity