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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‘Minimalism is a big part of the Scandinavian sound’
Jazz saxophonist CECILIE STRANGE talks to Chris Searle about the guiding principles behind her music
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
CECILIE STRANGE is Danish but, with a true Scandinavian heart, she’s been much affected by Swedish and Norwegian folk music.
Along with Swedish pianist Jan Johansen, who fuses jazz with folk melodies, she’s come up with new album Blikan, meaning “to shine” or “to appear” in Icelandic.
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