ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
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BEN LUNN reports from a new music festival in New York, and singles out a breathtaking composition that protests directly against femicide in Mexico
A memorial against femicide Mexico, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, 9 November 2020
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KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
A dazzling novel, and autobiographical fiction, by Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and poetry by Brazilian Ricardo Domeneck
JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself
Rereleases from Andrew Gold; John McFee, Stu Cook, Keith Knudsen; and The Outer Limits
Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema
STAYING in New York in the midst of a heatwave, where the smell of tarmac and weed shaped the air, isn’t necessarily my ideal set-up for a conference and music festival; but fate had other ideas.
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STEVE JOHNSON relishes a celebration of the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over
New releases from Allo Darlin’, Loyle Carner and Mike Polizze
New releases from Steve Tilston, FolkLaw, and Patch and the Giant
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend