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The annual Stirling Prize --awarded to a British architect for the best building project of the year was established in 1996, but had never been won by a council housing [...]

On Roads: a Hidden History Joe Moran Profile, 288pp, £14.99 'The English motorway system is beautiful and strange,' sang Black Box Recorder. This is a controversial proposition. Many would question [...]

Almost 100 years ago, on 20 February 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' was published. Thanks to family connections, he managed to get it on the [...]

My Name Is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Charles Saatchi Phaidon, 160pp, [pounds sterling]5.95 "How sweet of you," trills Charles Saatchi, "to think that advertising copy is written [...]

In 1934, J B Priestley published a travel book called English Journey. In the next decade it was so widely read as to become one of those semi-mythical books that [...]

!Viva South America! A Journey Through a Restless Continent Oliver Balch Faber & Faber, 416pp, £14.99 In 1947, George Orwell published an apocalyptic essay entitled 'Towards European Unity'. Reiterating Rosa [...]

Chaplin: the Tramp's Odyssey Simon Louvish Faber & Faber, 432pp,£25 You wouldn't know it from walking around London, but Charles Chaplin was easily the most famous Englishman of the 20th [...]

Marching to the Fault Line: the 1984 Miners' Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain Francis Beckett and David Henke Constable, 420pp, £18.99 There are many reasons why the miners' [...]

Red Star Over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin David King Tate Publishing, 352pp, £25 David King is, rather quietly, a [...]

When architects unite around a cause, it is usually to save a building from ignominious demolition. When the listed structure in question, however, is the Finsbury Health Centre, even its [...]

Otto Neurath: the Language of the Global Polis Nader Vossoughian Netherlands Architecture Institute, 176pp, £37.50 Few outside the fields of philosophy or graphic design remember the name Otto Neurath. This [...]

What exactly was 'totalitarianism'? Purporting to describe regimes that exercised total control over their citizenry, with a seamless apparatus of surveillance and mass conformity, the term was originally coined by [...]

One of the most famous of the Oblique Strategies--the set of cards developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt for use 'when a dilemma occurs in a working situation'--states 'Honour [...]

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922)--Behind the Mask Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30 Unfair as it might be, Russian composers and artists of the 20th century seem to [...]

Poe: a Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 170pp, £15.99 Of late, Peter Ackroyd has seemingly been immersed in the darkened corners of the capital, whether in his [...]

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades Marcello Di Cintio Union Books, 288pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 In Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, there is a small display of Wall fragments. Next to this are panels [...]

1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About Joshua Clover University of California Press, 198pp, [pounds sterling]14.95 "Hegel, Joyce, Fukuyama, Jesus Jones: so goes culture's declension." This is the [...]

Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-century City Anna Minton Penguin, 24opp, £9.99 What we have here is the first serious account since the crash of what happened to [...]

Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in its Downfall Luke Haines Heinemann, 425pp, £12.99 Of all the confidence tricks and vainglorious fantasies that Britain has indulged in since 1979, the [...]

The Liberal Defence of Murder Richard Seymour Verso, 358pp, £16.99 Richard Seymour is a writer better known, through one of those pseudonyms that throw employers off the scent of those [...]

Derelict London Paul Talling Random House, 224pp, £9.99 For a place really to count as a great city, someone has to have fantasised about its destruction at least once. Be [...]

The Shell Guides were a series of motorists' handbooks to the British landscape that ran until the 1980s, and were edited first by John Betjeman and then by the painter [...]

Images of Change: an Archaeology of England's Contemporary Landscape Sefryn Penrose and contributors English Heritage with the support of Atkins Heritage, 200pp, £17.99 To become 'part of the heritage' is [...]