Philip Dodd talks to Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland - who popularised the terms Generation X and McJob - about his new novel The Gum Thief.
Seven in Bed 2001 by Louise Bourgeois
One of the exhibits at the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Tate Modern
Courtesy Cheim and Read, Galerie Karsten Greve and Galerie Hauser © Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois is one of the giants of contemporary art.
It was no accident that her huge spider sculpture, Maman, was one of the first things to greet visitors when Tate Modern opened its doors at Bankside seven years ago and its no surprise now that the gallery is hosting her first major retrospective in this country.
More than two hundred works are on display ranging from Personnages, the beautiful, ostrich-spindly figures of her early maturity and the theatrical installations, Cells, which confirmed her reputation in the Nineties to the swaddled fabric heads and distressed dolls that feature in much that she does now.
In Night Waves this evening Philip Dodd will be talking to the artist, Brad Lochore and the art critic, Sarah Kent, about the impact of Bourgeois' work in a career that has spanned more than seventy years.
Louise Bourgeois is at the Tate Modern in London between 10 October 2007 - 20 January 2008
Douglas Coupland
There' ll also be an interview with the writer Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs, about his new novel The Gum Thief
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland is published by Bloomsbury on 8 October.
The Country Wife
Susannah Clapp will be reviewing Jonathan Kent's new production of The Country Wife, live for Night Waves
The Country Wife by William Wycherley is at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London until 12 January 2008
On War
The historian Hew Strachan will be explaining why Clausewitz is still as much of a touchstone for military philosophers today as he was in the nineteenth century.
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is published by Atlantic Books
