The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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Gang warfare and class struggle
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a masterful study of gang behaviour in the favelas of Sao Paulo
Crim Gov
PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Nicholas Barnes, Cambridge University Press £26.99
THE recent extradition by Mexico to the US of 29 drug cartel leaders reminds us of the scale of organised crime in the Americas. Up to 100 million people in the most marginalised communities of Latin America may be subject to the control of criminal gangs.
Crime in all its permutations visits fear, bloodshed and mayhem on vast swathes of the region, particularly its cities, as rival groups compete for territory and illicit spoils.
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