CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Acute observations on women’s experience from a veteran radical
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
AT 84, New York grande dame Vivian Gornick is having a significant renaissance after a lifetime of filing first-rate copy.
In 2020 a new collection of essays, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Rereader, was published, alongside two of her earlier books, 1977’s The Romance of American Communism and Approaching Eye Level, journalistic pieces from 1996.
Now Verso is publishing Taking a Long Look, a selection of her essays written over four decades.
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At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR