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deluge
Books / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
crime
Crime fiction / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
High quality pulp, rollicking online murders, Abnorman Britain, and high skates drama: reviews of The Get Off, Everyone In The Group Chat Dies, Pagans and First To Fall
BROE TV
Decoding Network TV / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
DENNIS BROE notes what happens to content when the streaming giants incorporate AI and deregulation into their economic models
MB albums
Music / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
New releases from The Tenementals, Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, and Kuunatic
video
Books / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
china
Opinion / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY 
gaza
Book Review / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
weiss
Books / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
last tango
Theatre Review / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
round up
Cinema / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
Liverpool
Books / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
edifice
Book Review / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
webb
Live Music Review / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys
korea
Literature / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
JESSICA WIDNER explores how the twin themes of violence and love run through the novels of South Korean Nobel prize-winner Han Kang
show
Book Review / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
SARAH TROTT explores short fictional slices of life in the American midwest from a middle-aged and mostly female perspective
IS web
Album reviews / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers
welfare
Book Review / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
RICHARD CLARKE recommends a hugely valuable text for those seeking theoretical analysis and practical action to defend public services
homeless
Book Review / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
JOHN HAWKINS is moved by an oral history that examines five black families pushed into homelessness in the US
Melsonby
Archaeology / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
DUNCAN GARROW introduces a remarkable Iron Age discovery in Yorkshire that reveals ancient Britons’ connections with Europe
uprising
Opera Review / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
STEF LYONS is stirred by a new opera that toys with ecological themes, but doesn’t get properly polemical
punishment
Books / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
JOHN GREEN recommends an entertaining, if harsh and instructive, study of bullying, discipline and power dynamics in schools and at work
fotw
Film of the Week: / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
CHRISTINE LINDEY welcomes a film that focuses exclusively on women war artists, but deplores its omission of feminism, political context and Soviet anti-war art
manning
Interview / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
BRETT GREGORY speaks with TOBY MANNING, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music
21st Century Poetry / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
by Lorraine Voss
TV
Decoding network TV / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
DENNIS BROE points out that Apple is part of the corporate and state surveillance network which the new series Prime Target rails against
life
Book Review / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
BOB NEWLAND recommends an outstanding study of how images have shaped narratives of identity, resistance and power in South Africa
Second Cumming
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
retrograde
Theatre review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a timely play that explores the resonances of McCarthyite nationalism in today’s US
colourists 1
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
attila
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
Given the global plague of Agent Orange, the bard channels his energy into community self-help