PAUL DONOVAN feels that the historical record vindicates the role played by U-Thant’s leadership of the UN from 1961 to 1971

MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism was hijacked by the far-right

GAVIN O’TOOLE savours a veteran correspondent’s account of the monumental US failure in Afghanistan

ALEX HALL recommends a considered and clear approach to dismantling apartheid and occupation, were Israel to come to its senses

MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Alpha, Park Avenue, The Running Man, and Left Handed Girl

MARIA DUARTE ponders the defence this film makes, of charisma and ‘ordinariness,’ that Hollywood uses to dramatise Nazi war criminals

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist and composer SOWETO KINCH

by  Martin Hayes

The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about imperialism than about monsters, suggests MONICA GERMANA

ANDY HEDGECOCK enjoys an unusual collection of stories that refract class consciousness through the flexible lens of folk horror

MARK JONES salutes the progeny of the Cocteau Twins for a new music built for today’s dreamers

AI shenanigans, tinnitus hallucinations, Jeckyll&Hyde in a locked room, and size doesn’t matter