GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels

CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there

GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism

MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods

TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience