MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Happy jazz
MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Jo Webb Trio
Ronnie Scott’s, London
★★★★
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