ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders

ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation

ANGUS REID harks back to the times, not that distant, when debates were fearsome confrontations about contemporary, pressing issues

ANGUS REID is moved by a brutally honest narration about growing up gay in a working-class community

ANGUS REID warmly applauds a play inspired by a real-life union campaign against zero-hours contracts

ANGUS REID argues that what might have been impersonal for Kazimir Malevich has had a profound practical application for artists who embraced the October Revolution

ANGUS REID fills the blanks left by a biased academic perspective

On the centenary of the incomparable Greek composer’s birth ANGUS REID recalls and recommends a new recording of his Pleiades and Persephassa

ANGUS REID takes issue with the pernicious imperial sabre-rattling purveyed by a dying empire in the latest edition of Top Gun

This production badly needs a knowing nod to the audience and a contemporary riff, suggests ANGUS REID

A production full of empty symbols and bereft of the 'epic' structure that might do it justice doesn't impress ANGUS REID

ANGUS REID ponders the psychology behind the arresting canvases of the working class painter Maurice Wade

ANGUS REID highly recommends a memoir of high literary merit written in concise, finely crafted and fast-moving prose

ANGUS REID challenges a narrative that has no interest in reality or politics and uses Brecht to side with the cultural right wing, the partisans of Greek ethnic superiority

Highly responsible and necessary work that opens up a goldmine, writes ANGUS REID

On the new biography of Africa’s murdered revolutionary, working-class Scots of distinction and memorable theatre productions

ANGUS REID recommends a production that explores the urgent need to be reacquainted with the dangers of repression and the difficult path to selfhood

Hitler’s designated ‘divinely gifted’ artists, who basked in Nazi glory and favour, found welcome continuity after 1945 as the new art ubermenschen of the anti-communist Federal Republic, writes ANGUS REID

ANGUS REID looks at two productions with equally noble aims and at how one succeeds admirably where the other fails utterly

JO CLIFFORD talks to Angus Reid about politics, life and most of all theatre of which she is a controversial and acclaimed practitioner

A demanding work that stares wide-eyed at the material realities of the finite human body