WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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Novel ideas in a knife to the heart, a pricking of the thumb and a skyward glance
Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
IN REJOICE, A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson (Gollancz, £18.99), the aliens have arrived and they're on a mission familiar to SF fans — to rescue the Earth from its human despoilers and, in doing so, pass judgment on the fate of humanity.
As the interface between us and their almost omnipotent artificial intelligence, they choose a chain-smoking, wise-cracking science-fiction writer who regularly receives death threats for her outspoken and wildly undiplomatic blogging.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class