Book of the Day

The monsters of feminist art

How the audacious artists of the Seventies embraced disgust and redefined female beauty.

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Also featuring Reflections by Mark Avery and The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly.

By Samir Jeraj, India Bourke, Christiana Bishop and Michael Prodger

Ed Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global economy.

By Will Dunn

Her new book What About Men? promises an anatomy of the male condition – but instead provides flagrant stereotypes and…

By Will Lloyd

Also featuring Penance by Eliza Clark and White Hot by Matt Roller and Tim Wigmore.

By Peter Williams, Sarah Dawood, Michael Prodger and Barney Horner

In 1981, the singer sensed his future fame – and retreated. Nebraska, his darkest and most personal album, was the…

By Ed Smith

The commerce, scandal and violence of sport in the 1980s was a reflection of a ruthlessly individualist society.

By Emma John

Mark O’Connell’s portrait of a notorious Irish killer becomes a study of the desire to turn reality into fiction.

By Lola Seaton