Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'
Exuberant times with Grimes at the Social
It's hard to empathise with the dysfunctional couples in a new play set in suburban Chicago because they're too one-dimensional
That eminent linguist Noam Chomsky once called Daniel Everett a charlatan and there is no doubt that he is a linguistic maverick.
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.
Peter Nolan punctures the myth posed in this book’s title that China is “buying the world.”
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.
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.
The boy was coming from the river. Barefoot, with his trousers rolled up above his knees, his legs covered in mud.
When he died in 2010 the communist writer Jose Saramago was regarded as one of the giants of European literature.
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.
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.