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Even The Rain (15)

Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'

Grimes

Exuberant times with Grimes at the Social

Detroit

It's hard to empathise with the dysfunctional couples in a new play set in suburban Chicago because they're too one-dimensional

Books

The Girl In Berlin

Monday 21 May 2012

Like a slowly clenching fist the plot of Elizabeth Wilson's latest novel, set in the austere post-war world, squeezes out the dirty compromises and double-crossings of both individuals and nations on the make in grey, early-1950s London and Berlin.

Bayou Arcana

Sunday 20 May 2012

What we get in Bayou Arcana is a horror-fantasy graphic anthology that is a deep-south “call and response” song between 11 male writers and the women who illustrate the stories.

Pig Iron

Sunday 20 May 2012

Paroled as a teenager from a northern jail after serving five years for a shocking crime commited as a boy, John John is still a prisoner.

1948

Friday 18 May 2012

Fictional rewrites of history circa 1945 often tend to favour "what if" scenarios - particularly of the Britain-under-the-nazi jackboot type - and it's an era much mined in edgy film and theatrical noir too.

The Economics Of Killing

Tuesday 15 May 2012

This book comes with a list of plaudits from leading progressives, so one begins reading with a heightened sense of expectation.

The Battle For Kinder Scout

Tuesday 15 May 2012

The Kinder Scout mass trespass happened 80 years ago but those who enjoy the countryside are still reaping the benefits of this courageous act of political defiance.

The Great Animal Orchestra

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is passionate about sound and he can describe, with poetic beauty, the noise of a virus or a falling snowflake.

100

Monday 14 May 2012

Most famous for being half of iconoclastic '90s pop group the KLF, Bill Drummond - who notoriously "burnt" a million quid in his aim to demystify money - has also over the years turned his hand to writing, painting, managing and choir-leading.

Split Screen

Wednesday 09 May 2012

Featuring a lively mix of well-established names jostling elbows with some newer voices, Split Screen brings together a host of British poets inspired to write about pop culture icons from film and TV.

Sex, Race And Class

Tuesday 08 May 2012

In a time of social upheaval when the word capitalism has re-entered the public discourse and the works of Karl Marx are being revisited, Selma James's Sex, Race And Class is a timely publication.