MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Equestrian sculptures of Manuel Rodriguez in Chile and Jose Gervasio Artigas in Uruguay
Innovatory tributes to leaders of popular rebellions
(L to R) Manuel Rodriguez; Jose Gervasio Artigas
[Kees van Tilburg/equestrianstatue.org] 
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
WHILE equestrian statues are probably the most ubiquitous of all public monuments in Western towns and cities, their aesthetics are predictably formulaic.
Three or four standard formats are replicated ad nauseam and most are offensive examples of wars waged by the rapacious elites of any given country.
Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius, whose 2,000-year-old equestrian statue is the oldest complete one in existence, is without armour or weapons as befits a supposed bringer of peace.
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