DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
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'Where is the justice?'
That's the question posed by MARK GILLIS in his film depicting the harsh realities of working-class life in one of the richest cities in the world. He tells John Green why he's asking it
MICHAEL STEWART applauds a fun send-up of the substandard Agatha Christie whodunnit
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the cryptic clues of a book within a book within a murder mystery
Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet
GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
SET in south-east London, Mark Gillis’s debut feature-length film Sink tells the story of skilled manual worker Micky Mason who, after losing his job, is forced to work zero-hour jobs before being made unemployed again.
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