CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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An ongoing anti-fascist inspiration
The Young’uns’ SEAN COONEY tells Susan Darlington why a working-class hero from the 1930s is celebrated in their new show
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
THE global rise of the far right and the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish civil war make The Young’uns’ fifth album as pertinent as it could be.
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