Birkbeck’s Dr Laura Salisbury examines a work from the beginning of the cultural moment in which we find ourselves fascinated by the experience of disease.

John Lucas thinks that Fante’s 1939 classic deserves more that its cult status.

Tina Jackson is enthralled by the salt and spray of these sea-going adventures.

A new biography of the the Floyd’s flipped-out front man tries to de-mythologise the myth.