CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Acute focus on left-green engagement with science and natural world
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
RELATIVELY brief and somewhat eclectic, this collection of essays on the links between science and socialism is nevertheless an outstanding guide to the subject.
It starts with a fascinating exploration of the life and work of “red chemist” Carl Schorlemmer, which he uses as a means of analysing the left’s relationship to science and the natural world in general.
For those keen to label Marxism as somehow innately anti-ecological and fixated upon unfettered industrial growth, Ian Angus’s nuanced and evidence-based conclusions might come as something of a revelation.
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