Something In The Air (15)
Olivier Assayas's film on the aftermath of May 1968 is infantile ultra-leftism
Jingoism and war-worship must be overcome
JOE GLENTON explains his need to respond to a world that is unsustainably divided
La Boheme
ENO's production of La Boheme is a triumph,
Books
Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars On Class And Gender
Monday 20 May 2013
Word magazine has calculated that 60 per cent of British artists in a recent music top 10 had been to public school compared with just 20 per cent in 1990.
The Grey Line
Monday 20 May 2013
A book on the troops who challenged the legitimacy of the Iraq conflict
The Power And The People
Sunday 19 May 2013
In the Power And The People Charles Tripp aims to analyse the forms of violent and non-violent resistance to invasion, occupation and military dictatorship in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Kurdistan.
The State Of Freedom
Sunday 19 May 2013
The title of this important book by Patrick Joyce is misleading in that its subject is not freedom, except in a specific aspect of that slippery concept.
Rebel Cities: From The Right To The City To The Urban Revolution
Sunday 19 May 2013
David Harvey's book puts the case for us to create cities responsive to our needs and not those of super-rich
Art fraud, action-packed narratives and anthropomorphism avoided
Thursday 16 May 2013
Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti is summoned to Malta in Thomas Mogford's Sign Of The Cross (Bloomsbury, £12.99) to arrange the funerals of two relatives who have died in horribly violent circumstances.
At the cutting edge of moral judgment
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction by Alexander Miller (Polity Press, £18.99)
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
Monday 13 May 2013
The scene is the Congo of the 1970s, a decade after its liberation from the French in this autobiographical novel.
Dirty Wars
Sunday 12 May 2013
Washington's covert foreign policy of targeted assassinations was described by activist Naomi Klein as the death throes of US democracy.