ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Living in an Armed Patriarchy by Lynda Walker
Essential reading on the women’s liberation struggle in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s on
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
THIS booklet by Lynda Walker goes back to the years from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, years that shook the north of Ireland profoundly in many ways.
In exploring the experience of the dispossessed from their own point of view, hers is the kind of writing about past events that departs from mainstream bourgeois history and she records aspects of their suffering and resistance with a compassion reflecting her personal involvement.
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