SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
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Best of 2024: Books
In a year press disinformation, ALEX HALL picks out the best and worst
The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
IT has been a tough year for very basic assumptions about common humanity and the most fundamental of shared values. The scales have again been forced from our eyes once more as the most powerful nations in the world essentially only endorse power even in extremis.
Most MPs elected this year remain silent on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, while figures like David Lammy and Keir Starmer appear to think it doesn’t count as a crime. It’s been a tough year for anyone bearing witness to body parts strewn across phone screens, tougher more to observe Israeli soldiers prancing in stolen clothing and stitching children’s toys to D9 bulldozers.
One key outcome of 2024 has been the exposure of the “might is right” system and the nature of zionism. If there is one thing that Hamas achieved it was this exposure of what zionism really is, and which is why amid the carnage it makes sense to get better informed about who did what and why.
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ALEX HALL recommends a considered and unemotional evaluation of the history and strategic choices made by Hamas