CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Blumenfeld's milestone Jewish saga makes a welcome reappearance
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Phineas Khan
by Simon Blumenfeld
(London Books, £14.95)
LONDON Books is justifiably gaining a reputation for reprinting classic but neglected 20th-century works set wholly or in part in the British capital.
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