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Paul Simon reviews Am I Cold by Martin Kongstad
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Am I Cold, by Martin Kongstad (Serpent’s Tail, £12.99)
IT’S 2008, just before the world suffers the lash of another capitalist convulsion.
In the rootless but savvy domain of Denmark’s new bourgeoisie — artists, restauranteurs and drug-frazzled rock stars — washed-up ex-food critic Mikkel Vallin attempts to inject meaning into his life after his marriage collapses and his job is taken away from him.
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