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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Gripping explorations of the fraught spaces between Mexico and the US
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Citizen Illegal
by Jose Olivarez
(Haymarket Books, £12.99)
ACCORDING to the poet and activist Martin Espada, within the “Latinx” community — people of Latin American origin or descent living in the US or elsewhere in the Anglo world — there is “the open expression of anger and grief, the music of protest, the search for a reflection of one’s face after the mirror is broken.”
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