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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A reputation restored
An excellent book on the Bauhaus movement rightly highlights the significance of Hannes Meyer, one of its most revolutionary but neglected figures, says MICHAL BONCZA
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Bauhaus 1919-1933
by Magdalena Droste
(Taschen, £40)
SIMULTANEOUS with the cataclysm of WWI exposing the bankruptcy and decadence at the heart of European politics, the 1917 October revolution in Russia emphatically demonstrated that radical political change with a global significance was on the agenda.
In western Europe, little changed politically. But an interrogation of how societies operate continued, with the Bauhaus school and movement in Germany becoming perhaps its most acute cultural manifestation in a climate of ideological ferment.
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