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“A model to make Rube Goldberg proud”
A Beatnik road trip leads to the last home of a Russian revolutionary
Documentary about a gay New York filmmaker, who made movie stars of his subjects
When the bloodletting is too violent, there is an outcry – but that obscures an underlying acceptance
Daniel Radcliffe is convincing as the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this energetic film
After a 10-year silence Bowie is back with an album that’s thick with visions of ageing, death and violence
The ‘Howl’ poet’s images capture the poses and personalities of the Beats – and the toll exacted by alcohol and age
Today’s most vivid TV dramas about the contemporary world show the pursuit of self and appetite as producing a world of barely controlled anomie
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