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

A wondrous celebration of Joan Eardley - the great painter who transformed the languages of the past, and who dared incoherence to advance the language of the present, writes ANGUS REID

Politically illiterate biography of a great working-class writer

BRIAN PETERSON, the first historian to publish a biography in English of the West African revolutionary Thomas Sankara, talks to Angus Reid about what inspired the iconic leader, assassinated in 1987 after only four years in power

Victoria McNulty’s bitter-sweet Glasgow kiss of a prose-poem is a stunning response to class oppression

With no suspense or dramatic development, Jaimini Jethwa's play is more an exercise in language than theatre

Personal preoccupations obscure political clarity in engaging gay memoir

Outstanding documentary on one of Scotland's great landscape artists

ANGUS REID is unimpressed by the reactionary undertow in an exhibition of melancholic Perthshire landscapes and photographs

ANGUS REID ponders on a book and an exhibition that highlight the divide between art and nation in Scottish painting

ANGUS REID recommends the brilliant memoir of a Labour activist and politician who never lost sight of her roots

Sam Wetherell's landmark study of the built environment

ANGUS REID discovers a choice exhibition of Alexander Zyw work - a Pole who adopted Edinburgh in the aftermath of WWII

The memorable and moving play has now been filmed to great dramatic effect

DENISE MINA tells Angus Reid why she's updated Brecht's anti-capitalist satire to the era of zero-hours contracts and food banks

ANGUS REID draws attention to the case of Tomasz Kitlinski, an academic targeted by a provincial governor in an increasing vociferous campaign of LGBT witch-hunting

Separated by centuries and countries of origin, ANGUS REID sees two quirky plays with a common thread in confronting social and political issues

Light and sound spectacle has its grittier moments

Two of Cuba's great directors reflect on changing attitudes to sexuality on the island

ANGUS REID sees some perceptive productions of work by women writers and directors in Edinburgh and Glasgow

ANGUS REID goes on a hallucinatory journey inspired by one of the great science-fiction novels