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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Revealing words of Italian left icon
The letters Antonio Gramsci wrote before his imprisonment in the 1920s are a fascinating record of turbulent times, says John Foster
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
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Antonio Gramsci: A Great & Terrible World — Pre-Prison Letters 1908-1926, by Derek Boothman (Lawrence and Wishart, £25)
In the 1970s, four decades after his death in a fascist prison in 1937, the Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci became something of a polarising figure in the international communist movement.
Those who wished to promote a specifically “Western” road to socialism sought justification in the voluminous notebooks which Gramsci compiled, under heavy censorship, while in prison.
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