KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense exploration of environmental terrorism
Ariela Barer in How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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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
SYLVIA HIKINS celebrates the chance that a new memoir offers to explore Frieda Brewster’s remarkable life story
How To Blow Up a Pipeline (15)
Directed by Daniel Goldhaber
★★★★
“ANYTIME anyone has challenged authority they’ve called it terrorism … if the American empire calls us terrorists then we’re doing something right” insists a group of 20-something environmental activists in this explosive part heist part eco-thriller which explores the climate crisis.
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