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
RAHILA Gupta's new book provides a fascinating insight into the suffering caused by the way in which the immigration system operates in this country.
SPECTRUM is a collection of Perry Anderson's long, scholarly essays, which analyse the political writings of the right, the centre and the left.
THIS misleadingly titled book focuses almost exclusively on the Philippines during the 19th century.
JAY Merrill is a short story writer with an ability to spin a good tale. We watch her stories progress from the sidelines, worried as to where she will take us. Her characters are mainly weak and hesitant, but sometimes callously brutal.
GAFFE is the word usually applied to those excruciating moments when politicos decide to leap into their own mouths and give the rest of us a good laugh at their stupidity.
MAT COWARD reviews the month's best crime fiction releases - John Burke's Hang Time, The Mentalist by Rod Duncan and Carl Hiaasen's Nature Girl.
STEVE ANDREW recommends Stuart Parker's refreshing guide to Belarus as a key to understanding the politics of this much-maligned country.
WITH Linda Smith's early death from cancer last year, Britain lost one of its brightest comic talents. The collection of her works published soon afterwards, I Think The Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes, underlined how funny and politically astute she was and the great affection in which friends and colleagues held her.
THIS is a small book on a vast theme. Zachary Karabell purports to show, through "forgotten history," that the relations between Islam and the West have been marked by concord as much as by conflict. But the history is very familiar and there are no new insights.
THE basic argument of this detailed, wide-ranging work is clear - capitalism exists to create profit and maximising profit means cutting costs and corners.