NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music to the repertoire of this years’ Three Choirs Festival

LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro

MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s dissection of William Blake

New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell

JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America

Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet

GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today