STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
OWEN and Luna met as students at a liberal arts college in the Hudson Valley, New York, in The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz (Titan, £8.99), and despite or because of their obvious incompatibility became instant best friends for life.
Years later, their relationship puzzles everyone who meets them. They’ve never been lovers; they seem somehow much closer than that. Though they’re both married to other people, their own alliance is clearly still the main one in their lives.
Is this anyone else’s business? Well, it is if you’re a homicide detective and someone close to Luna and Owen has just died, and you learn that this isn’t the first time that’s happened.
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