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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Much to gain from A World to Win
A new book on Marx draws some tendentious conclusions, but it's an invaluable addition to the literature on the great man, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
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
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
by Sven-Eric Liedman
(Verso, £28)
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN’S new biography of Karl Marx aims to provide the reader with a nuanced and detailed account of the intellectual giant’s life and thought.
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