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


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

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

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

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

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