GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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The Free-market Family by Maxine Eichner
Grim reality of unbridled free-market policies for US poor
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
IN THE current Black Lives Matter crisis, this book offers key insights into the conditions of black and working-class families in the US.
Focusing on the US’s grinding culture of overwork, job insecurity and absence of basic levels of support, it shows the astonishing disparities created by free-market policies.
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