RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
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THE CONCEPT behind Swedish rock band Ghost is a marketing coup. An entirely anonymous outfit, originally centred around the anti-Pope dressed lead singer Papa Emeritus and his band of so-called “nameless ghouls,” the group are kind of a stadium-rock version of Slipknot.
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