ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Best of 2018: Cartoons
by MICHAL BONCZA
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
MOST welcome in print and online this year have been new cartoonists Henny Beaumont, Steve Ashman and Jamie-Max Caldwell, who've displayed great flair in ridiculing the pathetic bunch of Tory has-beens that has misgoverned Britain over the last decade.
(by Billy B)
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