EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
The casualties of prosperity
JOHN HAWKINS is moved by an oral history that examines five black families pushed into homelessness in the US
A homeless man in New York
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BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone, Crown Publishing Group, £23
BRIAN GOLDSTONE tells us how we are all familiar the stigmatised homeless — “stumble-bum” winos, drug addicts, veterans of foreign or domestic abuse, the deincarcerated, the deinstitutionalised, folks living in Dickensian poverty — but now there’s a new and growing data statistic: the working homeless.
In his new book, Goldstone focuses on five families in the Atlanta area whose plight he sees as a dangerous rift in the social security safety net and a tipping point for the misery to come as class erosion continues to weaken the fabric of society.
“Families are not ‘falling’ into homelessness,” writes Goldstone, “they are being pushed.”
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