CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Homo erectus, here I come
Thanks to the brilliant Isolation Festival, I'm now a fully qualified tech neanderthal and ready to rise to the next online evolutionary challenge
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
HUGE congratulations to organisers Joe Solo, Pete Yen and Matt Hill for the brilliant We Shall Overcome Isolation Festival, broadcast online on Facebook Live for 12 hours last Saturday.
It reached tens of thousands of people, introduced us all to many wonderful performers we had never seen before and, at the time of writing, has raised over £26,600 for Pauline Town’s initiative to help the homeless in Ashton-under-Lyne.
And it helped me reach hitherto unknown reaches of the internet stratosphere — to boldly go where this old punk rocker had never gone before.
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