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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Books: The Alpha Wolf: A Tale About The Modern Male
by Nick Clements (Roundfire Books, £10.99)
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Hi Nick,
You don't mind me calling you by your first name do you?
It's just that in your book all your male characters - spivs or gurus - seek out the kind of immediate, easy directness that implies being on first-name terms from the off.
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