GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
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Film round-up: June 15, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of Sunlight, You Can Live Forever, Inland and Greatest Days
(L to R) Barry Ward as Leon and Liam Carney as Iver
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
Sunlight (15)
Directed by Claire Dix
★★★
E
A FORMER addict decides to take his terminally ill best friend and sponsor on one last hurrah across Dublin in a bid to persuade him to choose life in Claire Dix’s touching yet heartbreaking debut fiction feature.
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