SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal
Engrossing commentary on the woeful state of the nation
MAKING LINKS: Sharon Duggal
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
SHARON DUGGAL’S captivating debut novel The Handsworth Times was so successful because of its precise detailing of place and time.
For her second book, the author shows true creativity in doing quite the opposite but with equal success.
From the working-class south Asian community in Birmingham facing endemic racism in the 1980s in The Handsworth Times, Duggal shifts location to a nameless but vaguely contemporary city somewhere in England.
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