WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
New seeds of protest
BEN LUNN reports from a new music festival in New York, and singles out a breathtaking composition that protests directly against femicide in Mexico
A memorial against femicide Mexico, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, 9 November 2020
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
STAYING in New York in the midst of a heatwave, where the smell of tarmac and weed shaped the air, isn’t necessarily my ideal set-up for a conference and music festival; but fate had other ideas.
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