MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
The Defeat of Gilgamesh by Greta Sykes
Ancient narrative given acute contemporary resonance
OPPOSING THE PATRIARCHY: Inanna, goddess of love and war
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
THE EPIC of the hero Gilgamesh is a poem of ancient Mesopotamian origin which is reputed to be the very earliest surviving work of literature.
One of the most important historical documentary evidences of human civilisation, it was only rediscovered in the 1850s and was not to be translated into a readable format until the 1870s.
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Biography of a passionate socialist and feminist who made an outstanding contribution to popular drama
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