WILL STONE is impressed by a tour de force rendition of three decades’ worth of orchestral chamber pop

EWAN KOTZ holds on tight for a second helping of egg-punk from Snooper

DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women

BOB NEWLAND recommends a political thriller from former anti-apartheid activist Peter Hain

JAMES WALSH speaks to Chris Thorpe-Tracey - among many things, a one-time Morning Star columnist — about songs, cities, politics and prophecy

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DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination

New releases from Max Richter, Julius Asal, and Jean-Michel Jarre  

New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle

RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation

ANDY HEDGECOCK is intrigued by a scholarly account of how systemic disinformation can exacerbate the perception of threat and foster hatred

TOM KING relishes an enlightening history of the checkered progress of the war that humanity has waged on bacteria