MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Between Worlds: A queer boy from the valleys
Personal preoccupations obscure political clarity in engaging gay memoir
STALWARTS: LGSM veterans at a showing of Pride in 2015
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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
JEFFREY WEEKS’S memoir of gay liberation as it was experienced from 1945 to the present day is an exhilarating, informative — and troubling — account.
Weeks, a sociologist and historian, comes from the first generation of working-class students to benefit from the 1944 Education Act and to get to university from grammar school. His book describes the political and intellectual journey of a gay man from Rhondda in Wales to the middle-class academic milieu of London.
His two-part account — the first half joyful, the second somewhat horrific — is divided by the shocking suicide of his father in 1976.
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