MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Letting go
by Cheryl Sonnier
[Illustration by Lorna Miller] 
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
Toby stood outside the terraced house with the red door, cradling the stone against his chest.
Jack and Ollie had egged him on all the way from school, clapping him on the back and whooping.
“Go on,” Jack said.
Toby hefted the stone from one hand to the other, trying not to look as though he was stalling. It was not so much a stone as a lump of brick and mortar he’d found on the demolition site of the old library, but it would do. He closed his eyes to imagine it hurtling through the air and cracking the window.
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