Welcome to Ben Granger's Website
This website contains reviews, interviews and other features which first appeared over the past few years in Spike Magazine, Ready Steady Book, Red Pepper, Bookmunch, Sounds XP and City Life.
Interviews
Justified Anger - Belinda Webb Interview
Hurricane Julie - Julie Burchill Interview
Street Fighting Men - Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey Interview
Features
The Decemberists - Pop goes Literature
Hazlitt the Neglected - Forgotten but not Gone
An Explosive Journal - The Blast of Wyndham Lewis
Power and Decline -The Literary and Political Catholicism of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
Blackshirt: Mosley and British Fascism - Stephen Dorril
Accidental Genius - Pedro Carolino and English as She is Spoke
Book Reviews
100 Artists Manifestos - Alex Danchev
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Roberto Bolano
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
Everything That Follows... - James Shepherd-Baron
The Uncollected Michael Foot
The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
Celebrity - Marina Hyde
Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
A Clockwork Apple - Belinda Webb
The Studs Terkel Reader
Violence - Slavoj Zizek
Mystic Pig - Richard Katrovas
Interventions - Noam Chomsky
The Age of Consent - George Monbiot
Time of the Rebels - Matthew Collin
It's Mawdsley - David Baker
The Lost World of British Communism - Raphael Samuel
Nationality: Wog - Kester Aspden
Censored 2007 - Peter Phillips/Project Censored
1926 General Strike - Peter Taaffe
The Iron Heel - Jack London
The Weeping Women Hotel - Alexei Sayle
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
Tell Someone? - Kevin O'Hara
Uncle Dubbya's Jihad Jamboree - Ron Callari and Jack Pittman
Screen Burn - Charlie Brooker
Al Qaeda - Jason Burke
Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
No Retreat - Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey
Low Life - Mike Duff
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Saint Morrissey - Mark Simpson
The Fall - Mick Middles / Hip Priest - Simon Ford
Music Reviews
The Decemberists - Pop goes Literature
Reformation: Post TLC - The Fall
Someone To Drive You Home - Long Blondes
Ringleader of the Tormentors - Morrissey
Simpatico - Charlatans
Get Behind Me Satan - White Stripes
Fall Heads Roll - The Fall
Achtung Bono - Half Man Half Biscuit
Closer to the Bone EP - Red Kites
Why do you love me? - Garbage
Living Room - The Forest
You are the Quarry - Morrissey
Franz Ferdinand