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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The Man Who Shook his Fist at the Tsar by Jack Robertson
Compelling account of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's defiance of autocracy
Portrait of Pushkin by Orest Kipresnky, 1827
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
AN AMALGAM of biography, history, politics and literature, all woven together by informed commentary and observation, it is difficult to categorise Jack Robertson’s book on Alexander Pushkin.
Taking the reader down numerous fascinating discursive byways, the focus is on the acknowledged founder of Russian literature and his great 1833 poem The Bronze Horseman.
Its title references the great equestrian statue in St Petersburg’s Senate Square celebrating the founder of the city, Peter the Great.
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