Even The Rain (15)
Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'
The Fall
Will Stone was left pondering an incoherent outing
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
A lively production imbued with politics
Books
Salud!
Tuesday 08 May 2012
This comprehensive account of the British contribution to the medical services in republican Spain from 1936 to 1939 will surely take its place as the key work of reference on the British Medical Unit during the Spanish civil war.
Is China Buying The World?
Tuesday 01 May 2012
Peter Nolan punctures the myth posed in this book’s title that China is “buying the world.”
Dispatches From The Dark Side
Tuesday 01 May 2012
We exist in a most secretive “democracy,” one that would have us believe it is open, humane and with a respect for international law.
Yet in this book of essays on torture and the death of democracy Gareth Peirce shatters any misconceptions we may have that we live in a liberal country.
The Road To Wigan Pier Revisited
Tuesday 01 May 2012
It's 75 years since George Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier appeared and to mark the anniversary Stephen Armstrong has retraced Orwell’s route through northern England.
Short story: Revenge
Tuesday 24 April 2012
The boy was coming from the river. Barefoot, with his trousers rolled up above his knees, his legs covered in mud.
The Lives Of Things
Tuesday 24 April 2012
When he died in 2010 the communist writer Jose Saramago was regarded as one of the giants of European literature.
Crime fiction round-up: Bother in the Bath bailiwick
Monday 23 April 2012
Noah Hawley's The Good Father (Hodder, £12.99) is the second book in a few months in which a middle-class US dad tries to cope with his son's arrest for an infamous murder.
Other Lives But Mine
Wednesday 18 April 2012
At the core of Emmanuel Carrere's novel is the premise that from observing and experiencing the horrors and difficulties of others' lives we can both better appreciate our own existence and what we have in common with others.
London Recruits
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Think back to the depressing days of apartheid South Africa in the mid-1960s, after the political and military vanguard of the liberation movement had been sentenced to decades in jail.