MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake

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