GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Philosophers pirouetting through a linguistic maze
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
Reading Marx
By Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda And Agon Hamza
(Polity: £14.99)
This demanding book will confront any reader unused to the abstruse terminology of modern philosophy with an intellectual assault course.
The intention of three leading Marxist philosophers is “to read and thus think with Marx as a contemporary.”
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