ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles

ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement

Two books and a film that examine cultural excavation and the impact of place on behaviour

ANDY HEDGECOCK invites readers to contribute short fiction to our arts pages, offers some guidance and picks a few favourites

ANDY HEDGECOCK explores the implications of a recent statistical study of music lyrics that highlights the role of monopoly capital in silencing complexity

ANDY HEDGECOCK is compelled by a novel that challenges the assumption that atomic science is pure, objective and politically neutral

ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in an open-minded exploration of music that provokes reflection on the determinants of musical taste 

ANDY HEDGECOCK takes apart a dispiriting book that is mired in free market conservatism

ANDY HEDGECOCK suspects that artificial intelligence cannot imagine socialism

Weird, funny and ominous by turns, it is always original and always specific, a fine collection of stories, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK

This is a symbolic autopsy of 21st century Britain – the Britain of our own corner of the multiverse, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book which is the perfect starting point for those with an interest in the possibilities of immersive technology

From poets John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry to Jackson Browne, the magnificent Paula Rego the nail-biting, futuristic Kevin Core radio drama: Welcome to MedPatch and The American Way anthology, edited by Orsola Casagrande and Ra Page, which tackles 20 examples of US belligerence

Andy Hedgecock talks to SARAH SCHOFIELD about her fiction collection, Safely Gathered In

Kenneth Payne's book chillingly demonstrates how the military use of Artificial Intelligence weapons is becoming ever more dangerous, says ANDY HEDGECOCK

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel

Real and abstract revulsion compelling themes of dread-zone anthology

Novelist CHRISTOPHER PRIEST talks to Andy Hedgecock about his latest novel, set in an otherworldly archipelago where thousands of islands offer endless climactic, cultural and political possibilities

Critique of communicating radical politics flies in the face of progressive reason

Compelling exploration of the mysteries of human existence

Want to see your name in print? Now's your chance... ANDY HEDGECOCK explains how you can do it in this guide to writing 'flash fiction' and how you can submit your work to the Morning Star

ANDY HEDGECOK recommends a forensic examination of the ICC's response to Israel's attack on an aid convoy to Gaza in 2010

STEPHEN TRINDER talks to Andy Hedgecock about why there's little radical vision in science-fiction cinema

How should the left face up to the ubiquitous challenges of new technologies in the age of robotics, artificial intelligence and big data? ANDY HEDGECOCK reviews two books attempting some answers

Acute interrogation of how social perceptions, values and beliefs influence economic behaviour

It’s the left-wing activism of Jeff Nuttall where inspiration can be drawn from, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a revelatory new history of the Peterloo Massacre

New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London

A new book on profiling reveals just how far down the road to a Big Brother society we've gone, says ANDY HEDGECOCK

Short stories give voice to the underclass judged inarticulate by the literary establishment

A timely and entertaining read on the history and development of the ‘beautiful game’

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a challenge to conventional thinking on a socialist planned economy

A book on the 'metric society' details the use of statistics and digital information for malign political, social and economic ends, says ANDY HEDGECOCK

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ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book exposing how public schools exacerbate inequality in Britain

ANDY HEDGECOCK takes issues with the dangerous hype surrounding the BBC series

Sugar Daddy Capitalism exposes the grim reality of many who come into contact with neoliberal authoritarianism at work or in their private life, says ANDY HEDGECOCK

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a eulogy to popular music that laments the death of informed cultural criticism and laughs in the face of corporate marketing

Researching his short story Trying Lydia, about a Luddite rising in Nottinghamshire, revealed state collusion which offered insights into the present for ANDY HEDGECOCK

Journalist James Bloodworth is shocked while working clandestinely to see that 21st century Britain employment practices have regressed to the level of 19th century inhumanity and abuse

An anthology of dystopian fiction disappoints ANDY HEDGECOCK

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book with some revelatory insights into the work of the rock legend

A new book gives a chilling insight into neoliberalism's insidious control of new technologies and its malign consequences, says ANDY HEDGECOCK