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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Arts round-up 2014
Star critics Paul Simon, Ian Sinclair and Steve Andrew on the reads that have impressed them this year
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
Paul Simon
Four of my five books of 2014, as has been the case in previous years, look backwards for their material. It is as if the current contradictions of capitalism and the possible socialist responses to it are still too challenging for authors to tackle directly.
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