Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Brecht in all his greatness
The publication of the collected poems of Bertolt Brecht in English is cause for celebration, says ANDY CROFT
Wise, sad, defeated, defiant: Bertolt Brecht
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
NOT many poets’ reputations can survive the publication of their entire life’s work in a single breezeblock volume.
Even the best can seem repetitious and their finest work diminished alongside weak, juvenile or unfinished poems. Among 20th-century poets, there are only a few who may be said to pass this test and all were communists – Louis Aragon, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet, Yiannis Ritsos and Bertolt Brecht.
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