WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt

MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of an enterprising US convict whose campaign of theft involved military planning and exquisite manners

ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left

by Omar Sabbagh

by Omar Sabbagh

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer WILL GLASER

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

by Sally Lewis

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

STEVE ANDREW enjoys a polemic against an unreformable and profoundly reactionary tradition

MARK JONES applauds a powerful production that is less quiet period piece than raucous rally

The hard sell of cosmetic surgery creates an authoritarian nightmare. Could resistance to the dream of physical perfection become an act of terrorism?

MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review I Swear, The Woman In Cabin 10, Tron: Ares, and Plainclothes

MARJORIE MAYO suggests that this inspiring film, about the women toughened by the miners’ strike, be shown throughout the TUC and in community groups

GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship