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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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
THE UNIQUE horror of WW2 still hangs like a pall over the contemporary world and East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity — a remarkable combination of personal memoir, detective thriller and historical research — is another grim reminder of it.
International human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands was inspired to embark on this exhaustive quest by the total silence of his Jewish grandfather on his life before the war.
He came from Lemburg, now Lviv in Ukraine, one of those places that became the billiard ball of 20th century warfare. His grandson’s curiosity led to the discovery that this was also the home of two remarkable legal minds who were to shape modern international law.
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