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The letters Antonio Gramsci wrote before his imprisonment in the 1920s are a fascinating record of turbulent times, says John Foster
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
Antonio Gramsci: A Great & Terrible World — Pre-Prison Letters 1908-1926, by Derek Boothman (Lawrence and Wishart, £25)
In the 1970s, four decades after his death in a fascist prison in 1937, the Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci became something of a polarising figure in the international communist movement.
Those who wished to promote a specifically “Western” road to socialism sought justification in the voluminous notebooks which Gramsci compiled, under heavy censorship, while in prison.
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