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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
ARTS ROUND-UP 2013 - part 4
Star critics recall events in the arts they were most impressed by in the last 12 months - take 4
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
PERFORMANCE
Three very different tragedies were my theatrical highlights this year - Nicholas Hytner's production of Othello, set in a military base in Cyprus, Ibsen's Ghosts directed by Richard Eyre, and Michael Grandage's staging of The Cripple Of Innishmaan, Martin McDonagh's 1997 play.
There are many different types of tragedy, from Aristotle's categorisation of its essential elements being pity, fear, catharsis and the tragic individual to Raymond Williams's definition of its liberal and modern manifestations.
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New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
New releases from Kneecap, Sam Blasucci, and Juni Habel
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual