TONY BURKE plots the career of the legendary Senegalese band from Dakar nightclubs to Glastonbury
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Crime fiction with Mat Coward
Reviews of Indian Summer, A Single Source, The Boy Who Lived With the Dead and The Unnatural Death Of A Jacobite
RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie
MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender
New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
INDIAN SUMMER by Sara Sheridan (Constable, £8.99) continues the adventures of Brighton-based debt collector and amateur detective Mirabelle Bevan.
It’s now 1957 and Bevan, like so many, still misses the straightforward sense of purpose she knew during the war years, especially at a time when the previous generation’s struggle towards sexual equality seems to be paused.
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KEVIN DONNELLY accepts the invitation to think speculatively in contemplation of representations of people of African descent in our cultural heritage
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist