DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
Rebel Footprints by David Rosenberg
New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt
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MICHAEL STEWART applauds a fun send-up of the substandard Agatha Christie whodunnit
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the cryptic clues of a book within a book within a murder mystery
Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet
GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
DAVID ROSENBERG has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit.
I always assumed that my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of his Rebel Footprints exposes my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history.
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