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Best of 2020: Sci fi and horror fiction with Mat Coward
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics
STEVE ANDREW appreciates a passionate account of the Scottish Club during the ‘lost decade’
By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL
TONY BURKE speaks to Gambian kora player SUNTOU SUSSO
MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle
THE STRANGEST book I’ve read this year, and one of the most transfixing, is You Again by Debra Jo Immergut (Titan, £8.99).
It features in-house corporate illustrator Abby, who lives in New York with her husband and teenage sons. Middle-aged, a bit tired and a bit bored, she and her husband both started out as artists but life happened to them and now they have “proper” jobs.
It’s not a disagreeable existence at all but then Abby starts to see herself around town. It’s not someone reminiscent of her, it’s actually her, aged 22. Quite apart from the disturbing impossibility of the situation, there’s the dilemma: should she approach her old self? And if she does, what should she tell her?
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