DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
Latest editorial
Beyond Caring
Damning indictment of unemployment in the Thatcher era
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
UNEMPLOYMENT, as anyone who has experienced it for even a short time knows, is soul-destroying and humiliating.
Every unemployed person is made to feel that it’s their fault and that society has no obligation towards them. It’s nothing to do with a heartless and oppressive system.
That’s why Salford-born photographer Paul Graham’s book Beyond Caring, first self-published in 1985, is as explosive as ever. The system hasn’t changed, only the faces of the unemployed.
Similar stories
CHRISTIAN KNOBLAUCH is thrilled by the response of children to the presence of artefacts from the British Museum in their classrooms
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD