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CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys
JESSICA WIDNER explores how the twin themes of violence and love run through the novels of South Korean Nobel prize-winner Han Kang
SARAH TROTT explores short fictional slices of life in the American midwest from a middle-aged and mostly female perspective
Flo Perlin
Clay
(Propper Music)
★★★★★
THIS is a third, and a very fine offering from this Londoner with Iraqi and Belarusian heritage. An auteur music much in the chanson tradition that is crafted with consummate skill and a comprehensive vision.
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