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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
Soulful Sharon silences the cathedral
Emotional singer van Etten delivers a sterling performance in Manchester, writes Susan Darlington
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
Sharon Van Etten at Manchester Cathedral
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THERE'S something slightly disconcerting about seeing Sharon Van Etten smile between delivering lines like: "Burn my skin so I can't feel you."
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