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by Jim Greenhalf
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
Now that history’s being abolished
like accountability and reasonable doubt,
what is it you want me
to worry about?
Like everyone older than Sizewell ‘B’,
I am running out of energy.
Only the other night I dropped off
during Match of the Day.
When I woke,
Chelsea were three down
to Leeds United.
And I’d missed all of them
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