JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
Albums with Ian Sinclair
DAMN GOOD: Bob Dylan
MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
RELEASED online in March, Bob Dylan’s 17-minute Murder Most Foul felt, in some strange way, in close step with our difficult times.
Ostensibly about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, the monumental song ominously unspools like a slow-paced American Pie, with the now 79-year old mesmerisingly listing popular 20th-century artists and hit songs.
This extraordinary track closes his new album Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia), which was pretty damn good too. Perhaps rejuvenated by his previous five records of American standards, highlights include I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You and the nine-minute Key West (Philosopher Pirate).
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