MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
The Dodo Experiment
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
WHAT do you get if you take a group of young adults who have been through the care system, and shut them in a disused office building with face-paint, costumes and a copy of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?
What if a plague is raging outside (so they say) and they can only eat if they maintain their posh turn-of-the-century characters, or be punished?
What if this bizarre subjection of vulnerable people to thespian instruments of torture is being streamed live for voyeurs with a taste for psychological breakdown in period costume, like a kind of agonising, stage-struck Luvvie Island?
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ANGUS REID applauds the ambitious occupation of a vast abandoned paper factory by artists mindful of the departed workforce
ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility
ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders
ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation
