CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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Friday film round-up: November 6 2015
Maria Duarte and Alan Frank give their verdict on Brooklyn, Kill Your Friends, Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
Brooklyn (12A), directed by John Crowley
5/5
THE British Film Institute and the BBC deserve real congratulations for Brooklyn.
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ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective