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animal farm
Anniversary / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels

palestine fringe
Theatre Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

EWAN CAMERON picks out some remarkable performances in which Palestinian artists speak of their own experience

bastards
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today

sahara
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there

anglican crimes
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism

barnes
Book Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

JONATHAN TAYLOR attempts to disentangle the mind, self and political opinions of a successful bourgeois novelist

Old Persian text
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from

wee man
Follow the Movement / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS recommends three memorable performances from Scottish dance artists Barrowland Ballet, In the Fields Project, and Wendy Houston

2 gents
Theatre Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience

guthrie
Album Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger

round up
Cinema / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods

motherboard
Film of the Week / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable documentary, culled from 20 years of smartphone footage, that documents the trials of being a single parent