DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Rebel Footprints by David Rosenberg
New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt
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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
DAVID ROSENBERG has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit.
I always assumed that my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of his Rebel Footprints exposes my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history.
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