RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Drummer MOSES BOYD tells Chris Searle why the album Alive in the East? is an authentic reflection of the direction jazz is taking in this country
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
GROWING up in south London, the musical tastes of drummer Moses Boyd’s family were nothing if not eclectic.
“My parents played lots of gospel and soul,” he tells me, “and as a teenager I listened to hip hop, garage and grime.
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