MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
‘Jazz was created for and by the African-American community and was always political by its very nature’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to celebrated US guitarist DUCK BAKER
Duck Baker, Incus Festival, 2009
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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
“THELONIOUS Monk is not only our greatest genius, no-one else is even close.”
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