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The Booker-shortlisted US author on a life-changing vampire epic and inspiring writing about race

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

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American journalist and author Sam Lansky has reportedly helped to shape Britney’s globally anticipated memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’. Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, writes Annabel Nugent

Raoul Peck's “Silver Dollar Road” chronicles the story of the Reels family in North Carolina

Hester underlines the importance of place in this study of seven queer lives, from EM Forster to Josephine Baker

Diarmuid Hester’s travelogue celebrates the history of queer spaces in 20th century subculture, from Josephine Baker’s Paris to EM Forster’s Cambridge