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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The upside of regicide
GAVIN O’TOOLE relishes an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England
STUFFY AUTHORITARIANS: Charles I by Anthony Van Dyck, 1635; Charles III, 2019
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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
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England
Jonathan Healey, Bloomsbury, £30
WHAT better way to mark the coronation of Charles III than to recall the execution of his predecessor, Charles I, as the crowning moment of a revolution?
The dethronement of Charles in 1649 ushered in an unprecedented experiment in republicanism amid extraordinary ideological ferment the like of which England has not experienced since.
Given the forthcoming accession of his namesake, it is tempting to make comparisons between the 17th-century monarch and that of today.
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