ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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Austerity has led to an incessant erosion of social values
FIONA O'CONNOR endorses an examination of how current neoliberal policies sweep social care and welfare burdens into hidden abodes and increase exploitative pressures, particularly on working-class women
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KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
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Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution
By Marnie Holborow
Bloomsbury Academic £80
DOES home exist any more? “Home,” the concept of a private space which closes the door securely on work’s obligations – “the silent compulsion of economic relations,” as Marx termed it?
In this richly researched book, Marnie Holborow locates the fault line for women’s impoverishment lying in the heart of what home has become.
As Holborow puts it, “Home has traditionally been counterposed to work, despite the extensive amount of work – both paid and unpaid – that takes place within it.”
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