RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Global women's music merits more than pick-and-mix compilation
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Rough Guide to Women of the World
Various Artists
(World Music Network)
THE ROUGH Guide series has cornered the market for well-thumbed travel books for gap-year students and compilation albums for those interested in exploring world music from the comfort of their living room.
Previous well-compiled volumes have been dedicated to Cambodian psychedelia and Tex Mex but the remit of Women of the World is arguably too wide to be meaningful.
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