MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
‘Burlap Heroes are Saul Bellow’s persons struggling just to exist’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Nate Wooley
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
WHEN I heard the iconoclastic trumpeter Nate Wooley play at Dalston’s Cafe Oto in September I was drawn into his horn sounds, sometimes clear and icy, other times muffled, snorting and growl-toned.
I asked him about his new album Ancient Songs Of Burlap Heroes with the Columbia Icefield sextet.
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