GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Trish Murtha captures beguiling images of unemployed youth
[Trish Murtha]
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
YOUTH unemployment, the bleakly laconic title of a newly published volume of photographs by Trish Murtha, belies her creative engagement and interpretative talent.
She was no privileged, middle-class photographer from the south, slumming it among the northern working classes.
She was born and brought up among the children, the teenagers and families portrayed in the book.
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