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SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Best of 2018: Fiction
by PAUL SIMON
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
THE SUBJECT of Marc Mulholland's The Murderer of Warren Street (Hutchinson) is the 19th century proto-socialist Emmanuel Barthelemy and, while the book is a work of non-fiction, it's as fast-paced and eventful as any novel.
Barthelemy, inspired by the Jacobin St Just, emerges as an almost Promethean working-class hero. Sent to the galleys for killing an Establishment agent in 1830, after his release, he became a key barricade commander during the revolutionary June days of 1848 in Paris as the red republicans strove to wrest control from the bourgeoisie.
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