JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
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Stunning circus sights
TOM KING recommends a visual history of one of the oldest forms of entertainment
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
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
BREAD and circuses, readers of this paper won’t need reminding, were said to be the two ways the Roman elite appeased the citizens of its vast empire. With their appetites sated and minds distracted, there was little risk of an uprising until, of course, Spartacus came along.
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