JOHN GREEN is dissatisfied with a book that fails to address the promotion of ignorance as a ruling-class strategy to maintain control
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An error occurred while searching, try again later.Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: January 27, 2025
New releases from Nadia Reid, Manic Street Preachers and Mathias Eick
CHRIS MOSS is gripped by the account of a city that is point of embarkation for conquest and adventure, and arrival stage for dreamers and despots
WILL PODMORE recommends an analysis of the utopian thinking that underlies the rise of bourgeois economics
LEO BOIX reviews Cuban poet Carlos Pintado; Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas; Mexican American writer and critic Rigoberto Gonzalez; and Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos
ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership
JOHN GREEN takes issue with a mainstream novel designed to denigrate the GDR
ANNA SERGI recommends the first UK exhibition of a remarkable female photographer who studied the impact of mafia violence on everyday life
Nadia Reid
Enter New Brightness
(Chrysalis)
★★★
SINCE releasing her 2020 career-enhancing album Out Of My Province at the start of the pandemic, Kiwi Nadia Reid has had two children and relocated to Manchester, England.
Enter New Brightness, recorded back in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023, is the singer-songwriter’s fourth record. She continues to thicken her sound from her folky beginnings, with single Hotel Santa Cruz a hooky rock song, with a dash of country too.
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