STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Best of 2018: Books
by JOHN GREEN
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
JOHN GREEN surveys the remarkable career of screenwriter Malcolm Hulke and the essential part played by his membership of the Communist Party
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
JAN WOOLF wallows in the historical mulch of post WW2 West Germany, and the resistant, challenging sense made of it by Anselm Kiefer