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Andy Hedgecock
Book Review / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
Daniel Lind-Ramos, Ensamblajes, Nottingham Contemporary
Exhibition review / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
Culture / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
Two books and a film that examine cultural excavation and the impact of place on behaviour
Lenin in Smolny, by Isaac Brodsky, 1930 (detail)
Short Fiction / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
ANDY HEDGECOCK invites readers to contribute short fiction to our arts pages, offers some guidance and picks a few favourites
CATTLE MARKET: Ready for showtime #xfactor
Opinion / 5 April 2024
5 April 2024
ANDY HEDGECOCK explores the implications of a recent statistical study of music lyrics that highlights the role of monopoly capital in silencing complexity
Paul Stein and Nicholas Metropolis, both veterans of Oppenhe
Books / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK is compelled by a novel that challenges the assumption that atomic science is pure, objective and politically neutral
PICKING UP THE PIECES: A music instructor with recovering so
Books / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in an open-minded exploration of music that provokes reflection on the determinants of musical taste 
Hedy Lamarr in Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Book Review / 18 June 2023
18 June 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK takes apart a dispiriting book that is mired in free market conservatism
Book Review / 19 January 2023
19 January 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK suspects that artificial intelligence cannot imagine socialism
Nigel Kneale
Book Review / 6 December 2022
6 December 2022
Weird, funny and ominous by turns, it is always original and always specific, a fine collection of stories, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
Illustration: Bryan Talbot
Literature / 25 October 2022
25 October 2022
This is a symbolic autopsy of 21st century Britain – the Britain of our own corner of the multiverse, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
Book Review / 12 August 2022
12 August 2022
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book which is the perfect starting point for those with an interest in the possibilities of immersive technology
EXPLORATION: Girl and Fryed
Photography / 17 May 2022
17 May 2022
REMARKABLE: (L to R) The Dance (1988); The Policeman's Daugh
Culture / 7 December 2021
7 December 2021
From poets John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry to Jackson Browne, the magnificent Paula Rego the nail-biting, futuristic Kevin Core radio drama: Welcome to MedPatch and The American Way anthology, edited by Orsola Casagrande and Ra Page, which tackles 20 examples of US belligerence
Sarah Schofield
Interview / 10 November 2021
10 November 2021
Andy Hedgecock talks to SARAH SCHOFIELD about her fiction collection, Safely Gathered In
MENACE: A robot sentry
Book Review / 19 August 2021
19 August 2021
Kenneth Payne's book chillingly demonstrates how the military use of Artificial Intelligence weapons is becoming ever more dangerous, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
DEFTLY SKETCHED: Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / 17 May 2021
17 May 2021
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel
ORACLE OF ABJECTION: Julia Kristeva
FICTION / 10 May 2021
10 May 2021
Real and abstract revulsion compelling themes of dread-zone anthology
INTERVIEW / 17 February 2021
17 February 2021
Novelist CHRISTOPHER PRIEST talks to Andy Hedgecock about his latest novel, set in an otherworldly archipelago where thousands of islands offer endless climactic, cultural and political possibilities
THE STRUGGLE CONTUINUES: ‘La beauté est dans la rue’ (B
BOOKS / 10 February 2021
10 February 2021
Critique of communicating radical politics flies in the face of progressive reason
Best of 2020 / 9 December 2020
9 December 2020
FILM ONLINE / 25 August 2020
25 August 2020
Compelling exploration of the mysteries of human existence
FICTION / 21 April 2020
21 April 2020
Want to see your name in print? Now's your chance... ANDY HEDGECOCK explains how you can do it in this guide to writing 'flash fiction' and how you can submit your work to the Morning Star
BOOKS / 20 April 2020
20 April 2020
ANDY HEDGECOK recommends a forensic examination of the ICC's response to Israel's attack on an aid convoy to Gaza in 2010