ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Best of 2018: Books
BY PETER MASON
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Slaughterhouse Prayer (London Books) by John King is a really important novel, one that could and should change prevailing attitudes about how human beings treat animals.
Dark place: a US slaughterhouse (Pic: US Department of Agriculture)
Tense and all-consuming as it goes into dark places, it reminds us not only how badly and brutally we deal with our fellow creatures but also how we have the temerity to project our own worst vices on to innocent beings of other species.
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GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son
Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
BLANE SAVAGE recommends the display of nine previously unseen works by the Glaswegian artist, novelist and playwright