Trainspotting in translation

20 years on, how does Irvine Welsh's quintessentially Scottish masterpiece read… in French?

Kneeling and Screaming | Adam Neate

Adam Neate is a self-taught British artist who began by leaving his paintings, on cardboard, on the streets of London and now has work in collections in 28 countries around the world

Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

"Creaky plotting", overlong and a "missed opportunity". Neil Stewart finds much at fault with Eleanor Catton's much hyped Man Booker-longlisted novel

Why I love “Love to Love You Baby”

"I don’t know why I associated all this with New York City – it was recorded in Munich by Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and released before Studio 54 had even got its tax evasion systems in order"

The business of art and fashion

Bayode Oduwole of Pokit contemplates the relationships between art, fashion and money

Fashion film stills | Ruth Hogben

Review: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Torture, white slavery, forced heroin addiction and genocide – unlikely sources for comedy, but Anthony Marra's story, set across two Chechen wars, manages to be as funny as it is jarring

Review: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Neil Stewart reviews Evie Wyld's new book, a dark story of abuse, abduction and monsters that slowly reveals the meaning of its title, complete with its strategic comma

Why I love Dorothy Squires, by Rick Owens

"She has that whisky and cigarettes tone to her voice. She really emotes"

Edna O’Brien on acid, and other adventures

Anne Garvey explains why this literary great, too often dismissed as a 1960s Irish author of chick-lit, is finally having her moment