STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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Universal truths in an era of fake news
A play on the arbitrary detention of a journalist resonates beyond its Turkish context, says MAYER WAKEFIELD
Monochrome prisoner: Peter Hamilton Dyer in #WeAreArrested
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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
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
#WeAreArrested
Arcola Theatre, London
THE FACT that a group of “Free Julian Assange” campaigners was standing outside the Arcola Theatre on a chilly press night served to underline the relevance of the theatre's first collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
#WeAreArrested is the story of the “truly Kafkaesque” detention of newspaper editor Can Dundar (Peter Hamilton Dyer) at the behest of the Turkish government.
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