GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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Best of 2019: Books
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The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
DANIEL SONABEND’S We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain (Verso) tells the stories of the Jewish ex-servicemen and women who came back from the second world war only to find that fascist gangs were still harassing Jewish communities back home in Britain.
The book recounts the heroic struggles of these Jewish veterans who challenged the fascists, often at considerable risk to themselves, given the level of violence that the gangs employed.
I was shocked to realise how little I had known about the continuance of far-right violence and the influence of Oswald Mosley in the post-war period and the threads of fascism, anti-semitism and racism that run through our history.
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