Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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The fattened-up cow collapsing in the excrement of its own greed
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
STEPHEN MCLAREN’S observations of the City of London during the big 2008 banking crash provide a scathing commentary on a fattened-up cow collapsing in the excrement of its own greed.
The photographer spent days on end prowling around the city, capturing its pulse. The frenetic atmosphere of that short period of implosion is there in his searing images, now published by Hoxton Mini Press in the book The Crash.
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