STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves

STEPHEN MCLAREN’S observations of the City of London during the big 2008 banking crash provide a scathing commentary on a fattened-up cow collapsing in the excrement of its own greed.
The photographer spent days on end prowling around the city, capturing its pulse. The frenetic atmosphere of that short period of implosion is there in his searing images, now published by Hoxton Mini Press in the book The Crash.

JOHN GREEN recommends a German comedy that celebrates the old GDR values of solidarity, community and a society not dominated by consumerism

JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal

Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place

Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds