DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Confrontational, persuasive, subversive
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a striking collection of images on the state of the Arab world
Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 2005 (left) and (right) Batoul S’Himi World Under Pressure, 2012
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
GENERAL Vo Nguyen Giap, who masterminded the Vietnamese wars of liberation against both the French and the US, was fond of saying that his most reliable re-supply of weapons always came from his enemies.
Those words spring to mind while paging through the book Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art— it is exactly what most of these Arab artists have done.
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ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
With foreign media banned from Gaza, Palestinians themselves have reversed most of zionism’s century-long propaganda gains in just two years — this is why Israel has killed 270 journalists since October 2023, explains RAMZY BAROUD