MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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The war grief, pain and loss that will not be televised
21st century poetry with Andy Croft
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
‘War is like love,” wrote Brecht in Mother Courage, “it always finds a way.”
In the context of the endless, partial, dirty imperial wars of the 21st century, it is worth remembering that love, like war, will always find a way to say what must be said.
These days we are used to the televised grief of combatants, civilians and refugees. But the experiences of the families left behind are rarely heard.
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The Odyssey is a tale of evasions and half-truths; this reflects the effects of traumatic ‘moral injury’ common to war veterans, suggests STEPHAN BLUM
MARIA DUARTE admires the scale of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event