RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Gold by Sebastiao Salgado
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MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
ACCLAIMED Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado went to the Serra Pelada goldmine in northern Brazil in 1986, the year of its closure, and 18 months on from the demise of the murderous military dictatorship which had ruled the country for 21 years and controlled the mine.
Salgado arrived unprepared for what he saw: “Every hair on my body stood on edge,” he commented. “The Pyramids, the history of mankind unfolded. I had travelled to the dawn of time.”
The photographs he took, now available in the Taschen book Gold, record a crater with walls covered in scenes that Dante’s Inferno or the hellish paintings of a Botticelli or Bosch could only approximate.
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