PAUL FOLEY applauds a careful, intelligent and absorbing production of Brian Friel’s classic depiction of Irish west coast tragedy

JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite

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

JOHN NEWSHAM recommends rereading Tony Harrison’s poem V for its relevance to 2025

WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms

by Alan Price

SCOTT ALSWORTH celebrates that, for the first time, a British videogame workers’ union has received formal recognition from their employer

This thriller is a politically charged and morally complex dive into climate activism and police repression, judges JENNY FARRELL

Cat show killer, avenging the pawns, women hunt the Ripper, and running dry in the outback

STEVE JOHNSON relishes a celebration of the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over

MAYER WAKEFIELD is gripped by a production dives rapidly from champagne-quaffing slick to fraying motormouth

New releases from Steady Habits, Jeff Tweedy, and Tom Skinner

KEVIN DONELLY considers the strategies by which a major black US artist asserts the place of African-Americans in visual culture