TONY BURKE speaks to Gambian kora player SUNTOU SUSSO
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Militants, Artists and Poets by Jim Burns
Choice compendium of countercultural currents
MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Good Night, and Good Luck: Live from Broadway, Becoming Victoria Wood, Hamnet, and Song Sung Blue
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Filipino-US saxophonist JON IRABAGON about the threat of AI in the time of Musk and Trump, and how an artist can respond
PETE HIRST introduces a theatre company from Wakefield dedicated to the propagation of socialist perspectives on present British political realities
JENNY FARRELL reminds us that the US novelist, famed for pulp fiction and nature stories, was, by virtue of life experience, a committed revolutionary socialist
WHILE I might initially have had some misgivings about reviewing a book made up entirely of book reviews, by a few chapters into Militants, Artists and Poets I was quickly convinced that this was going to be an enjoyable and often thought-provoking read, not least in signposting new and original books I hadn’t already encountered.
Clear and relaxed, Burns’s almost effortless style of writing enthusiastically explores a kaleidoscopic range of materials and manages to do so in an fashion that is fair, balanced and thoroughly objective.
A key attraction of this collection is that it generates interest in the most unlikely and often sadly marginalised of
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