ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Best of 2018: Books
by JOHN GREEN
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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
ONE of the most significant books on art to appear this year is Art for All: British Socially Committed Artists from the 1930s to the Cold War by Christine Lindey (Artery).
Gut-wrenchingly honest: Brigitte Reimann
While I played a modest role in getting her book published, that shouldn’t disqualify me from recommending it because Lindey has rediscovered those socially committed artists of the period who produced a whole body of significant works but who have been ignored by mainstream writers and critics.
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