SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us
Moving story of one individual enmeshed in Algeria’s war of independence
Book cover set against the iconic image from Gillo Pontecorvo's film Battle of Algiers
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
THIS austere, spare but also deeply affecting novella by Joseph Andras explores the backstory and interior life of Fernand Iveton.
Iveton was the only pied noir, those of French descent but living in the then colony of Algeria, who was executed in 1957 by the French authorities during the prolonged war of independence.
The work starts with the bungled attempt by Iveton and his cell to detonate a bomb in a factory.
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